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USSR: Measures of Economic Growth and Development, 1950-80

Central Intelligence Agency · 1982-12-08 · 399 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Joint Committee Print, dated December 8, 1982, gathers studies that the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence prepared for the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress. It gives estimates of Soviet gross national product for 1950 to 1980, with indexes of industrial production, agricultural production and consumption, and explains the methods and data behind them. The foreword says official Soviet statistics inflate growth and that the CIA measures offer a more accurate picture. The document contains no UFO material.

  • p. 26 …the shifting of industrial produc- tion toward Siberia, which leads to longer shipping distances to reach…
  • p. 51 …may cost much more to construct in Siberia than in the Ukraine because of greater transportation…
  • p. 268 …European Russia, Ukraine, the “Volga Valley,” Western Siberia and Altay kray, and Northern and Central Kazakhstan…
  • p. 306 …Kok- chetav and Northern Kazakhstan are equated with Omsk in Western Siberia; all other Kazakhstan ob…
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Table 1
Average Annual Rates of Growth of Per Capita Consumption
and Major Components in Established Prices, 1950-80
1951-80 1951-55 1956-60 1961-651’
0
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6-80
Total _ 3.5 4.5 2.4 5.1 2.9 2.2
93°45 3.6 4.9 2.0 5.4 2.8 2.1
Food 2.6 3.4 1.8 4.3 1.6 1.0
Soft goods 4.8 8.4 1.9 7.1 3.0 3.1
Durables 9.3 17.4 3.9 9.1 10.0 5.3
Services 3.3 2.9 4.2 4.3 3.0 2.5
Household services 4.2 3.5 4.4 5.8 4.6 3.4
Housing 2.0 1.1 2.5 . 2.0 1.7 1.4
__utimi¢S 5.2 4.1 7.8 5.7 5.3 3.8
Transportation 7.3 10.1 8.4 8.0 6.1 2.6
Communications 6.0 6.2 5.6 7.8 6.3 4.9
Repair and personal care 3.8 0.3 1.8 8.4 5.7 5.5
Recreation 2.4 7.1 2.2 1.6 0.6 0.3
Communal services 2.5 2.6 4.0 3.0 1.5 1.5
Education 2.4 1.5 5.2 2.9 1.5 1.7
Health 2.6 4.3 2.1 3.2 1.4 1.3
Table 2 (Percent)
Structure of Consumption in Established Prices and at Factor Cost, 1950, 1960, 1970, and 1980 3
1950 1960
Established Factor _Estab1ished Factor
Prices Cost Prices Cost
1970 1980
Established
Prices
Factor
Cost
Established
Prices
Factor
Cost
Iotal 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Goods 77.1 62.8 79.8 65.4 78.9 64.1 78.4 63.6
Food, beverages
and tobacco
59.8 53.6 54.9 51.0 51.1 '47.1 45.3 42.4
Soft goods 15.2 7.9 19.6 11.0 21.0 12.5 2'2. 1 13.6
_1)urab1es 2.2 "
1.3 5.2 3.3 6.8 4.5 11.0 7.6
Services 22.9 37.2 20.2 34.6 21.1 35.9 21.6 36.4
f Household 9.6 23.2 9.0 22.0 10.2 22.8 11.8 24.2
~ Housing 2.3 16.2 1.9 14.2 1.6 13.0 1.5 12.2
Utilities 1.2 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.6 1.8 2.0 2.2
Transportation 1.0 1.1 1.7 2.0 2.6 3.2 3.1 4.0
Communications 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.7 0.6 0.9 0.8 1.3
Repair and
personal care
3.2 2.4 2.3 1.8 2.6 2.2 3.5 3.0
Recreation 1.4 1.7 1.5 2.0 1.2 1.8 1.0 1.5
Communal 13.3 14.0 11.2 12.6 10.9 13.1 9.8 12.2
_ Education 8.6 9.2 6.6 7.6 6.8 8.3 6.2
1'
7.8
Health 4.7 4.8 4.6 5.0 4.1 4.8 3.6 4.4
3 Derived from ruble values in 1970 prices. Because of rounding,
components may not add to the totals shown.
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