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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-6
GNP by End Use
950 1951 1952 1953 1954
M ii955 1956 1957
Billion 1970 Rubles
1958 1959
Consumption 80.1 80.6 85.5 91.1 96.2 101.6 106.4_ 113.7 121.7“ 1253 W3
Consumer goods 50.3 49.9 53.6 58.1 61.6 65.1 68.67 74.3 80.2 83.3
Food 42.9 41.5 44.7 47.9 49.5 52.3 54.7 59.1 63.7 M
mm”
Animal products 21.3 21.6 22.2 23.4 24.6 25.3
Z3
30.2
Processed foods 2.7 3.5 3.9 4.7 3.9 4.8
27.5
5.2 5.4
65.6
34.3 _ ___A_Mig
35.8‘
5.6 5.9
Basic foods 17.0 14.2 16.1 17.1 17.9 18.7 18.4: 19.5 19.6 19.8
Beverages 1.9 2.2 2.4 2.7 3.1 3.4 3.6 4.0 4.2 4.2””
Soft goods 6.3 7.2 7.6 8.4 9.8 10.3
C 11.9 .118 - 31:3
Durables 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.8 2.3 2.5
11.2
2.7 3.3
Consumer services 29.8 30.7 31.8 33.0 34.6 36.5
C 39.4
Housing 13.0 13.3 13.7 14.0 14.5 14.9
37.8__
g_
16.115.5
_ Utilities 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.4
Transportation 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.7“ 2.0
3.6 3.9
1.5 1.6
Communications 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7
-3
0.7
41.6
3
7443.07”
17-° . J1-9.-.-.-
2.2
Z
2.4””
..
°-8 WQ~.§___
Repair and personal care 1.9 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.1 2.1” 2.1 2.2 2.5
Recreation 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.8 2.1 2.2
H
2.3 2.5 2.6
Education 7.4 7.5 7.8 8.0 8.3 8.7 8.9’ 9.2 9.4
A’
9.7m’
Health 3.9 4.0 4.1 4.4 4.8 5.2 5.4
7
5.7 6.0 6.4
investment 19.0 22.6 22.7 26.2 28.1 34.1
W 43.3 48.1
“ml”
New fixed investment 16.1 19.4 19.2 22.3 23.9 28.9
38.8
36.3
53.4
40.1
Machinery and equipment 3.5 3.5 3.8 4.0 4.7 5.8 7.3 8.0 9.0 9.8
Construction and other
Wk capital outlays
12.3 14.2 15.9 17.4 19.3 21.4
32.6 __
22.7
7*
24.8
442-”
28.0 31.6’
3
Net additions to livestock 0.3 1.7 -0.5 0.9 ~-0.2 1.7 2.6
K 3.5 3.1“ 2“.75W
Capital repair 2.9 3.2 3.5 3.9 4.3 5.2 6.2
7’
7.1 7.9
F 9.3”’
Qtrher government expenditures 34.5 34.5 37.7 36.1 36.3 38.8 43.9: 39.2 41.4 42.8"“
Government administrative
services
10.4 10.4 10.4 10.0 9.3 8.3 8.1 7.7 7.8
1
7.63
5'
General agricultural pro-
grams
0.7 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.8 0.5 0.6
Z’
0.6 0.7
'
0.73133
V
Forestry 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6
State administration and
the administrative or-
gans of social organiza-
tions
6.0 5.9 5.8 5.6 5.0 4.4 4.2 4.0 4.0 3.8
i i Culture
M_
_ 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7
1'
0.8 50.8"’ 0:8‘
33
Municipal services 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
W
0.6 ‘E673 056”
Civilian police 1.9 1.8 1.8 1.7 -1.6 1.4 1.3’ 1.2 1.2
'i'“*1*.z” 3 3
f Research and development 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.7 2.9 3.1 3.6
K 3.9 4.5“. 5.0
i Outlays n.e.c. 21.9 21.6 24.7 23.3 24.2 27.4 _ 32.3: 27.5 24.. ?6i5j_;
Gross national product 133.6 137.7 145.8 153.4 160.7 174.5 189.1 196.2 211.2 223.4
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