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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.

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  • p. 18 …Power, United Nations International Comparisons Project, Phase I (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975) ICP…
  • p. 19 …Oleg 1-Ioeffding, Soviet National Income and Product in 1928, Columbia University Press, New York, 1954…
  • p. 21 …In theory, the Soviets " Basic Principles of the System of Balances of the National Economy, United…
  • p. 50 …Lawrence Grose, Real Output Measurement in the United States National Income and Product Accounts, US Department…
  • p. 166 …The subsidies on housing, recreation, and the press were allocated to the housing, recreation, and other…
  • p. 181 …Duke University Press, 1972), pp. 155-194; with Wade Robertson, “Industrial Production in the USSR," Soviet…
  • p. 183 …tons, square meters, units of production, or some other convention- al measure. Examples of this type…
  • p. 210 …For example, the production of commodities pub- lished in physical units includes intraplant turnover, but the…
  • p. 222 …bulbs Units Narkhoz Machine tools sector ml Meta? cutting machine tools Rubles Narkhoz Forge presses sector…
  • p. 249 …Hardt, eds., Soviet Economic Statistics, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1972 Treml and Hardt U…
  • p. 261 …Khrushchev stat- ed that “figures for average yield (of grain) which you read in the press…
  • p. 308 …central press. 8 Because the official data have again been made available to the United States…
  • p. 320 …Power, United Nations International Comparisons Project, Phase I (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975) ICP…
  • p. 321 …2 For details, see United Nations, Comparisons ofthe System of National Accounts and the System of…
  • p. 328 …Judging from a mass of anecdotal evidence from the Soviet press concerning the poor quality of…
  • p. 342 …Although the average size of a dwelling unit increased between 1950 and 1978-by 17 percent…
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Table A-1 (Continued)
GNP by Sector of Origin
1960
5
1961 551562 1963 559564 1965
5
1966 1967
Billion 1970 Rubles
1968 1969
Industry 65.7 70.1 75.3 79.8 85.0 90.4 95.55 102.1 1 0858 1145.6
5
Ferrous metals 4.8 5.3 5.7 6.0 6.5 6.9 73 7.7 8.1 8.3
Nonferrous metals
Fuel
2.3
7.0
2.5
7.3
2.7
7.7
3.0
8.4
3.1
8.9
3.4
9.5
3.7
10.1
4.0
10.6
4.3
11.0
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11.4
Electric power 3.3 3.7 4.2 4.6 5.2 5.7 6.1 6.6 75.2 5575.755
Machinery 19.3 20.9 23.1 - 24.5 26.1 27.5 28525 30.7 _ 33._5_~“_~ 35.8 W
Chemicals 2.9 3.2 3.5 3.9 4.4 5.1 556 6.1 6.6 7.0
Wood, pulp, and paper 7.2 7.2 7.3 7.6 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.6 8.8
595.0555
Construction materials 4.7 5.0 5.3 5.4 5.7 6.1 656 6.9 7.2
Light industry 6.1 6.3 6.5 6.6 6.8 6.9 751 53.0 8.7 9.2
Food industry
Other industry
Construction
Agriculture
6.3
1.9
16.5
59.3
6.8
2.0
17.4
63.4
7.2
2.2
18.2
61.5
7.5
2.3
18.9
48.7
7.9
2.5
19.9
64.4
8.8
2.6
21.1
68.1
9.2
2.s
221
70.3
9.8
3.0
23.8
69.7
19:‘
3.2
25.0
74.0
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3.3
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70.8
Transportation 15.7 16.8 18.2 19.7 21.5 24.1 2557 27.9 29.8 3154
5
Communications 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 2.0 2.2 251 2.6 2.8 111555
Trade 15.8 16.5 17.4 18.1 18.8 20.0 21.6 23.1 24.9 26.2 _
Services 51.4 53.3 55.8 58.0 60.9 63.8 665.75 69.6 V_72.7 75.6
Housing 19.6 20.5 21.4 22.3 23.1 23.8 245.6 25.4 26.2 265.9
55
Utilities 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 2.0 251
5
Repair and personal care 2.7 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.7 3.0 353 3.6 359 452
5
Recreation 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.6 2.7 2.575 2.9 350 351555
Education 9.1 9.5 10.2 10.7 11.4 12.1 12.7 13.2 13.7 11.1555
Health 5.3 5.5 5.7 5.9 6.1 6.4 6565 6.8 7.1 __7_'4 _
Science
Credit and insurance
Government administrative
services
3.7
1.0
6.7
4.1
1.0
6.6
4.6
1.0
6.8
4.9
1.0
6.8
5.3
1.0
7.1
5.6
1.1
7.5
°.;9_
1.1
7.9
6.3
1.2
8.4
6.7
1.2
8.9
7.2
1.3
555 5.1555
General agricultural pro-
grams
0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 05.9 51.0 1.1
15.1555
Forestry 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 055 0.5 053
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State administration and
the administrative or-
gans of social organiza-
tions
3.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.3 3.5 357
Culture 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 1.0
55
3.9
1.0
4.1 45355
551.52555515.35
Municipal services 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 05.6
55
0.7 0.7
Civilian police 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.1 152 51.3 1.3
Military personnel
Other branches
5.6
0.6
5.5
0.7
5.7
0.7
5.9
0.7
6.1
0.8
6.3
0.8
6.4
0.9
6.6
0.9
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1.4
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1.0
Gross national product 232.3 245.3 254.5 251.7 279.4 296.8
5
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