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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. 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-5 1970=1oo
Indexes of GNP by Sector of Origin
W 955*“ 1951 H1952 1953 1954 ""1955 7 19588111185757 “M1958 1959
lndustry 22.2 24.9 27.0 29.5 32.4 36.0 38.9 42.0 45.7 50.0
Ferrous metals 22.6 25.6 29.1 31.9 34.8 38.3 41.2 43.7 46.6 50.7
C
Nonferrous metals 19.0 21.5 24.2 27.0 29.6 34.7 36.8 38.9 41.0 44.4
Fuel 24.0 26.3 28.1 30.0 33.1 37.6 41.8 46.6 50.9 54.5
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Electric power 12.5 14.2 16.2 18.3 20.5 23.1 26.0 28.5 32.0 36.0
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Machinery 21.6 23.7 25.8 28.1 30.6 34.2 36.7 39.2 42.1 45.9
Chemicals 13.0 14.3 15.6 17.2 19.6 22.5 25.3 27.7 31.0 33.7
M
Wood, pulp, and paper 40.4 45.8 47.6 49.6 54.7 57.6 59.7 63.9 69.9 76.3
Construction materials 14.2 16.1 18.2 21.2 24.7 29.4 32.6 37.9 45.2 52.0
Light industry 27.8 32.7 34.7 38.1 42.6 45.6 48.3 50.5 54.5 58.7
Food industry 22.3 25.5 27.9 30.9 33.1 36.2 40.9 43.5 46.8 51.7
K
Other industry 22.2 24.9 27.0 29.5 32.4 36.0 38.9 42.0 45.7 50.0
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Construction 20.4 23.3 25.7 28.3 31.5 35.7 38.9 43.1 48.7 54.7
Agriculture 50.4 46.4 48.8 51.7 52.8 59.8 68.6 67.6 73.2 74.7
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Transportation 15.5 17.3 19.0 21.0 23.2 27.6 30.7 34.9 38.6 42.9
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Communications 22.4 24.5 26.7 28.4 30.8 33.1 35.6 38.4 40.6 43.2
Z
Trade 23.9 26.0 28.5 31.6 34.9 38.2 41.7 45.1 49.5 55.9
Services 50.2 51.4 52.7 53.4 54.3 55.1 56.4 57.7 60.4 62.9
Housing 48.1 49.4 50.7 52.1 53.6 55.4 57.3 59.8 63.0 66.7
Utilities 25.9 26.9 28.0 29.6 31.5 33.7 36.0 39.1 43.4 _47.6_k___>
Repair and personal care 47.8 48.6 49.3 50.2 51.1 52.2 51.0 50.7 53.5 60.6
Recreation 41.9 43.5 45.5 47.8 52.7 60.3 62.6 64.9 69.1 70.5
Education 47.2 48.8 50.4 51.7 54.0 56.2 57.0 58.1 59.5 61171?
Health 44.0 45.8 47.6 49.3 52.7 56.0 57.6 60.2 63.4 66.4
Science 18.2 20.0 21.6 22.7 24.0 26.2 29.6 32.8 37.2 41.3"‘
Credit and insurance 80.8 80.3 79.8 79.9 80.1 80.3 78.6 75.3 74.5 72.4 __
Government administrative
services
96.4 96.4 96.4 92.7 86.0 76.6 75.1 71.7 72.6 70.7
General agricultural pro-
grams
66.7 72.3 77.7 71.1 73.7 53.1 57.9 $55.5 65.9 69.5
Forestry 121 .8 123.9 126.0 113.3 109.3 105.6 103.2 97.4 94.2 ;;_7.9_:
State administration and 1 18.3
the administrative or-
gans of social organiza-
tions
116.6 114.8 110.7 98.9 87.0 83.7 78.8 78.2 74.9
Culture 39.9 41.2 42.5 43.6 45.5 47.3 47.8 48.5
Municipal services 53.4 55.4 57.5 58.7 59.8 60.9 62.5 63.1
49.7
63.9
50.4
64.3
Civilian police 118.3 116.6 114.8 110.7 98.9 87.0 83.7 78.8 78.2 74.9
Military personnel 101.4 114.0 122.5 112.7 104.4 97.3 95.4 89.8 82.3 76.5
Other branches 34.9 35.9 38.0 40.0 41.9 45.5 49.3 51.2 55.1 58.3 _
Gross national product 34.9 35.9 38.0 40.0 41.9 45.5 49.3 51.2 55.1
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