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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. 4 …The volume contains a series of tables estimating the Soviet gross national product and its components…
  • p. 5 …quantified estimates of the value of Soviet gross national product (GNP), its rate of growth, its…
  • p. 6 …The Soviet indices of industrial and agricultural production are based on gross output rather than value…
  • p. 7 …For example, data on the amount of waste included in the gross output data of agricultural…
  • p. 8 …The measure shown represents “net output,” or gross output less products used by agriculture (seed and…
  • p. 9 …compendium on the Soviet eeonomV- “The Real Gross National Product of the U.S.S.R…
  • p. 10 …Contributions of Rush V. Greenslade ________ _________________-________ ____ __ 1x I. Gross National Product of the USSR, 1950—80.-______________________________ 3…
  • p. 12 …Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421 Part I. GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT OF THE USSR, 1950-80 By…
  • p. 14 …Turnover Taxes as a Share of Gross Output in Industry, 1972 6. Subsidies on Agricultural Products…
  • p. 15 …2019/07/19 C05210421 Gross National Product of the Soviet Union in Established Prices, 39 by…
  • p. 16 …of Value Added in Agriculture B-8. Gross Output, Total Material Purchases, and Value Added in…
  • p. 17 …I Soviet Gross National Product in Established Priceskby End Use, I if I970 D-6. I…
  • p. 18 …An International Comparison, 1981 Gross National Product of the USSR: An International Comparison, 1982 Soviet Economic…
  • p. 19 …2019/07/19 C05210421 Gross National Product of the USSR, 1950-80 Introduction This paper presents…
  • p. 20 …Lee, “USSR Gross National Product in Established Prices, 1955-1975,” Jahrbuch der Wirtsc/la/I Osteuropas…
  • p. 27 …GNP for the Soviet Union and of gross domestic product (GDP) for selected OECD countries.” For…
  • p. 34 …Lee, “USSR Gross National Product," p. 413; and Becker, 1969, p. 128. difference between the growth…
  • p. 35 …conducted on a net rather than a gross basis. The enterprise is expected to be managed…
  • p. 41 …the business sector and are included in gross private business investment. The second US account shows…
  • p. 43 …On the other hand, the tax amounts to 30 percent of the gross output of the…
  • p. 44 …Turnover taxes were 30 and 56 percent of the gross outputs of the sugar and other…
  • p. 45 …The capital stock data used in this study are gross of depreciation. Approved for Release: 2019…
  • p. 47 …2019/07/19 C05210421 Table 8 Billion Rubles Gross National Product of the Soviet Union ' in…
  • p. 48 …The row and column sums are determined as each sector’s gross output less, respec- tively…
  • p. 49 …2019/07/19 C05210421 Table 10 Percent 1970 Soviet Gross National Product by End Use W…
  • p. 52 …Therefore, value added is computed as a residual—the difference between gross output and current material…
  • p. 53 …Therefore, if in- dexes of gross output and current inputs are both available, the gross output…
  • p. 56 …Each subbranch index measures the gross output of an I-O sector by summing the physical…
  • p. 57 …The material-input index is less desirable than a double deflation or gross output index, but…
  • p. 58 …2019/07/19 C05210421 Appendix A ' Soviet Gross National Product, 1950-80 This appendix presents the…
  • p. 59 …5 0.5 0.6 0.6 Gross national product 133.6 137.7 145.8…
  • p. 60 …4 ._ §l§5QfI.i2j§§5 1.0 Gross national product 232.3 245.3 254.5…
  • p. 61 …4 1.4 1.4 1.4 Gross national product 383.3 398.2 405.7…
  • p. 62 …0 5.2 3.7 2.7___ Gross national product 5.5 5.9 5.0…
  • p. 63 …8 7.6 5.8 4.0 Gross national product 3.1 5.9 5.2…
  • p. 64 …5.1 4.; 2.9 7.7“ ' Gross national product 5.6 3.8 -1.1…
  • p. 65 …2 3.4 0.8 1 4 Gross national product 3.9 1.9 7.3…
  • p. 66 …9 0.3 2.5 0.3 Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
  • p. 67 …3 0.3 0.3 0.3 Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
  • p. 68 …3 0.3 0.3 0.3 Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
  • p. 69 …3 51.2 55.1 58.3 _ Gross national product 34.9 35.9 38.0…
  • p. 71 …7 134.1 135.2 137.1 Gross national product 100.0 103.9 105.9…
  • p. 72 …27.5 24.. ?6i5j_; Gross national product 133.6 137.7 145.8 153.4 160…
  • p. 73 …1 43.7 45.9 s9.7_‘ Gross national product 232.3 245.3 254.5…
  • p. 75 …4.5 1.1 5.9 -3.1 Gross national product 5.5 5.9 5…
  • p. 76 …0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Gross national product 3.1 5.9 5.2…
  • p. 77 …0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Gross national product 5.6 3.8 -1.1…
  • p. 78 …g 4.3 0.0 0.0 Gross national product 3.9 1.9 7.3…
  • p. 79 …1 28.1 29.1 30.2 Gross national product 741.7 752.2 784.0…
  • p. 80 …9 36.6 31.8 Ww3§’.98W Gross national product 1,083.8 1,124.6…
  • p. 81 …1 46.1 46.9 46.8 Gross national product 1,578.5 1,624.6…
  • p. 82 …3.2 7* 1.4 1.3 Gross national product 3.7 4.0 3.5…
  • p. 83 …1 14.0 13.8 13.5 Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
  • p. 84 …8 13.4 13.3 7 17717 Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
  • p. 85 …4 9.6 8.1 6.9 Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
  • p. 86 …31.7 65.3______s.9 g Gross national product 34.9 35.9 38.0…
  • p. 87 …9 98.2 103.1 89.1 Gross national product 60.6 64.0 66.4…
  • p. 88 …8 110.4 93.7 81.8 Gross national product 100.0 103.9 105.9…
  • p. 89 …Subtracting the deflated material pur- chases from the deflated gross output produces value added in constant…
  • p. 90 …The ratio of material inputs (gross output less NMP) to gross output declined slowly in this…
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Table 8
Derivation of I970 Weights for Components of the
Index of Food, Beverages, and Tobacco
Retail CFM
Sales for Sales for
Military Consumption Total Consumption
Subsistence C in Kind d __i_i_i
Consumption = Consumption b- (Billion Rubles) (Billion (Billion (Percent)
(Billion Rubles) (Billion Rubles) Rubles) Rubles)
T691 W W WW _ 79.924 3.001 1.970_
A 16.964 WW W101.s59W 100W.0o
1v1¢_aW; W
11.793 1.024 .690 6.702 20.209 19.84
§iWsWhWWW W
2.963 .110
1' *9 3
3.073"
W
73.02
\W/Wegeta oil
9
.058 .094
W .996
3 3
.98’
Wble W W
.844
Mar arine 621
E ' 7 K 7
.621 .617”
3.. .
-
..
M1W15W WW 4.508 .293 T071
A 4.148
M
9.020
7 8.065“
alter __--. 1-6"...
A
A- .121 .461 3.259 3.20
Cheese W W .723 .723 .71
Eggs WWWWW 1.573 W
.231 W .16W5_ WW1.679_ WW 3.648 WW
Sugar WW WW 5.089 .030 W WW W
5.169 W 3.07
CWol11"ectior1eries W W 5.744
K
WW W
5.744 6.5.645"
Ea WW W W W_ W .W580 .020
W K W .600
4* .579
flour and groats W
9.295
5
.130 7.377
7
T309
W "10.11'1"”” 9.93"”
M3CflfOfl1W WWW WWW WW W
H I i M
Potatoes .718 .753 .072 2.490 4.033 3.967
W
\LegetWabWles .
_ 2.4W86 .224 W W W 3 299 WWW
_F_r511W W 3.130W
7
.346
0 .072 _
.517 .
WW_WWW3W.24 W
.120 WW W.564 4.160 WW__W4.0WgsW_WW
Alcoholic beverages and 23.866
soft drinks
23.866 23.43
Tobacco 2.780
V W ‘2.780 72.73
1* Retail sales reported in Narkhoz 1972, pp. 584-585, minus
purchases by state enterprises and institutions in small-scale
wholesale trade (melkiy opt). Such purchases were deducted, based
on their reported shares in 1968-1969 as given in Vest stat, No. 5,
1971, pp. 36-37. No attempt was made to distribute the deduction
for business restaurant meals or the reported total value of the
markup added to the costs of products sold in restaurants. '
'> Collective farm market purchases were distributed by product
group on the basis of the following data: (1) a distribution of sales in
all CFMs in 1957 (I. D. lgnatov, Puti razvitiya kolkhoznoy torgovli,
Moscow, 1959, p. 15; (2) indexes of the physical volume of total CFM
sales during I958-68 (Narkhoz I959, p. 708 and Narkhoz I968, p.
654); (3) price indexes for 1958-68 compiled from those for all CFM
sales during 1958-63 (Narkhoz I959, p. 667; and Narkhoz I968, p.
655); (4) ruble values for 1957 obtained from the shares given in
lgnatov and a value of total sales given in Narkhoz I959, p. 708; (5)
extending these values to 1968 with current value indexes dervied
from the indexes of physical volume and price; (6) assuming that the
relative shares so obtained for 1968 held in 1970. Institutional
purchases were deducted, based on information in Vest slat, No. 5,
I971, p. 39.
C CIA estimates based on information concerning the basic military
food ration and its estimated costs.
d.CIA, GNP I970, pp. 32-35. A value for fruit was estimated using
the methodology described there.'The value for butter represents the
milk equivalent of 104,000 tons of private production Narkhoz I970,
p. 151) valued at average realized prices. Consumption in kind of
sunflower seeds was allocated to vegetable oil.
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