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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 3
Indexes of Total Consumption and Major Categories,
Selected Years, 1950-80
Goods i W i i Vji Mffl Vii’? 789
1970 Weights 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975
(Percent)
ml.Qdhéi--1115?illW 9
.7I.:*_53Y*I:.lI?j§:.l I Mi ...I.i1!41T1if7 .!.§ 11.150.0 .
C°I""1.\{".i3iWV J60.7 V’ 73.17’
Communal services 10.9 41.4 51.1 62.6 81.9 100.0 112.7
Education V *1 Wi ii’ ;;7i_ L___ 0 Q :5:*§. it I157’ W it
_12_7.6-8 . 2...?-8 5.-3 . 5.-.3. ..
.8-2:3 . ._°-°_.. .1..-
Health 4.1 39.0 52.5 68.0 81.3 100.0 112.6
1980
140.4
139.5
124.5
147.7
227.9
143.7
161.6
127.4
170.51
167.13
187.9
188.0
114.3
142.1
126.9
127.8
125.2
Table 4
Growth Rates of Total Consumption and Major Categories,
Alternative Base Year Weights in Established Prices
1951-607
7
1561-70 1971-so’
1960 1970
Weights Weights
1976
Weights
1960
Weights
1970
Weights
1976 1960 1970 1976
.‘.’.Y3ig1"§_2. W¢is.1.“§._._W."g<?9.<.'§ -.-.. ..._.818... .. 8-82..
.....Pvr@.b.'¢$ . -._._..!.5~9 ._ '5-9 -.
8.7
15.9
5.3
7.8
f_5.8 Wk
7.8
5-L- . 4-1..-... _....f1-0.-..
7.8 8.6 8.6
Services 4.9 4.8 4.7 5;
_
5.6 5.5 7""4.0"l
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