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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-5 (Continued) 1970= 100
Indexes of GNP by Sector of Origin
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1796677 1967 1968 1969
Industry 53.6 57.2 61.4 65.1 69.3 73.8 77.9
77
83.3 88.7
7
937.37
77
Ferrous metals 55.1 59.8 64.4 68.4 73.4 78.1 82.9 87.6 91.6
7
94.8 _ __
WNonferrous metals 48.4 52.4 57.1 61.5 65.2 69.9 76.7 __ 83.5 90.2 94.7
Fuel 57.7 60.6 64.1 69.4 7'3.9 78.3 83.3 __ 87.7 90.8 947877
713712871116 power 39.7 44.5 50.2 55.8 62.0 68.3 73.5 __ 79.1 86.1 8;, 8181:.
V Machinery 50.1 54.3 59.8 63.7 (17.7 71.5 74.7 __ 79.7 86.9 r
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Chemicals 37.1 40.8 45.1 50.0 56.8 65.3 71.8 79.0 84.7 89.8
77Wood, pulp, and paper 76.4 76.3 78.1 81.4 85.1 86.8 87.2 91.5 93.7
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Construction materials 58.3 62.6 65.8 67.6 70.9 75.8 81.2 __ 87.0 90.4
Light industry 62.1 64.3 66.6 67.5 69.5 70.7 76.0 __ 82.3
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94.4
77 Food industr; 54.1 58.1 61.7 64.3 67.7 75.3 78.6 __
88.8
84.4
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*Other industry 53.6 57.2 61.4 65.1 69.3 73.8 77.9 __
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83.3 77 9753 777
Construction 58.9 62.0 64.9 67.4 70.9 75.3 78.8 _
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Agriculture 73.3 78.3 75.9 60.2 79.5 84.1 87.4 __
89.3
86.0 91.4 7 78717747:
Iransportation 47.0 50.4 54.4 59.0 64.4 72.2 76.9 __ 83.6 89.3 93.8
Communications 46.5 49.2 52.3 55.3 59.3 65.4 72.3 79.8 85.5
77779737.07
'17rade 56.5 58.7 62.2 64.7 67.2 71.3 76.9 82.6 88.7
77 937.3777
Services 65.5 67.9 71.1 73.9 77.7 81.3 85.0 __ 88.6 _ 92.7 96.3_7
Housing 70.6 74.1
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77.4 80.5 83.3 86.0 88.8 91.6 94.5 97.3
Utilities 52.0 56.8 61.5 66.4 71.5 76.6 81.3 85.9 90.4 ;_2.745 1:
Repair and personal care 58.3 53.5 52.7 54.0 58.7 65.3 72.0 _ 78-9 89;1__-.-- 21.-2-.--
Recreation 73.2 75.8 77.6 78.3 84.0 87.2 87.8 __ 93.1 97.1
__ Education 62.5 65.3 69.9 73.7 78.7 83.3 87.3 __ 89-4 8&3-_
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Health 69.4 72.2 75.0 77.2 80.3 83.8 86.9 89.4 93.4
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Science 47.2 52.7 58.6 63.2 68.7 72.4 77.3 80.57 8537 972.0
Credit and insurance 71.0 71.0 72.6 74.0 76.1 76.6 80.3 M 84.67777789.2 7
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Government administrative
_ services
69.8 69.0 70.4 70.7 73.7 77.7 81.9 87.7 92.7
General agricultural pro-
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84.5 76.4 75.3 74.2 77.0 79.2 83.9 9177777777779877677
Forestry 86.2 86.9 89.4 91.5 93.1 91.9 94.0
77
94.97 97.2
State administration and
the administrative or-
gans of social organiza-
i tions
70.5 70.1 71.2 70.7 73.5 78.6 8 3 .
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88.8 93.1 98.1
f Culture 51.3 52.9 56.3 59.3 63.4 66.9 70.1 77.1 84.9 _y_7_7_7_9_2.4
Municipal services 65.4 66.2 68.3 71.0 74.6 77.4 81.1 87-i‘.__.-_.2L-L... 963..
V Civilian police 70.5 70.1 71.2 70.7 73.5 78.6 83.3 __ 88.8 93.1
Military personnel 76.1 74.4 77.5 80.3 82.9 84.8 86.4 if 89.6 93.9
QthfLbranches 60.6 64.0 66.4 65.7 72.9 77.4 .3‘-‘L...
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(iross national product 60.6 64.0 66.4 65.7 72.9 77.4 81.4 __ 85.1 90.3
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