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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. 20 …The Soviets have never published '° See USSR' Toward a Reconciliation of Marxist and Western Measures of…
  • p. 21 …It is never clear, however, whether these books represent official state- ments or personal opinions. The…
  • p. 42 …Although the requirements are never perfectly met, market prices of most Western industrialized coun- tries fit…
  • p. 206 …Domestically produced ma- chinery that is exported never appears in the invest- ment data. Likewise, imported…
  • p. 263 …These instructions were never publicly disseminated, but are believed to represent an alter- ._ ation in the…
  • p. 266 …These amounts are never recorded as gross output and therefore need not be deducted; they represent…
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Table A-2 Percent
Average Annual Rates of Growth of GNP by Sector of Origin
1951-55 1956-60 1961-65 1966-70 1971-75 1976-80
lndustry
Ferrous metals
10.2
11.1
s.3 6.6 6_.3
7.6 7.2 5.1
5.9 3.4
4.0
77717
Nonferrous metals 12.8 6.9 7.6 7.4 5.9 2£__.. _
Fuel 9.4 8.9 6.3 5.0 5.0 3.3
Electric power 13.1 11.4 11.5 7.9 7.0
45777
Machinery 9.6 11.9 1.4 67.9 7.9 5.37
Chemicals 11.6 10.5 12.0 g9 8.6 3.8
Wood, pulp, and paper 7.4 5.8 2.6 2.9 2.6 —<>-1___
Construction materials 15.7 14.7 5.4 5.7 5.4 1.8
L' ht industr
f 1g Y 10.4 6.4 2.6 7.2 2.7
Food industry 10.2 8.4 6.8 5.9 3.9 0.7
Other industry 10.2 8.3 6.6 6.3 5.9 73747
Construction 11.8 10.5 5.0 5.78 5.6 2.47
Agriculture 3.5 4.2 2.8 3.5 2.3 0.737
Transportation 12.3 11.3 9.0 E77 6.5 3.5
7
Communications 8.1 7.0 7.1 8.9 7.3 5.87
Trade 9.9 8.2 4.8 7.0 4.6 3.0
Services 1.9 '
4.4 472 3 2.5777
Housing 2.9
3.5
5.0 4.0 3.1 2.7 2.27
Utilities 5.4 9.1 8.1 5.5 5.1 5.57
Repair and personal care 1.8 2.2 2.3 8.9 6.5 6.277—
Recreation 7. 5
Education 3 .6
4.0 3.5 2.8
2.2 5.9 3.7
1.9
2.2
1.4
2.5
Health 5.0 4.4 3.8 37.6 2.6 17.5
7
Science 7.5
Credit and insurance -0.1
12.5 9.0 6.7
— 12.4 1.5 5.5
6.0
5.9
3.2
4.6
Government administrative services -4.5 -1.8 2.2 5.2 3.8 3.0
General agricultural programs — 4.5
Forestry — 2.8
9.7 — 1.3 4.8
—-4.0 1.3 1.7
4.8
0.9
35-1‘ .
0.3
State administration and the administrative -6.0
organs of social organizations
—4.1 2.2 47.9 3.5 2.5
A
Culture 3.5 1.6 5.5 8.4 5.0 73757
7 7'
Municipal services 2.7
Civilian police -6.0
1.4 3.4 5.3
—4.1 2.2 4.9
4.5
3.5
3.37
2.5
Military personnel -0.8 -4.8 2.2 3.4 1.6 0.67
7
Other branches 5.5 5.9 5.0 5.2 3.7 2.7___
Gross national product 5.5 5.9 5.0 5.2 3.7 2.7
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