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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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Table A-9 1910 Rubles
Per Capita GNP by End Use
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Consumption 444.6 440.5 459.4 479.7 498.4 517.9 532.7 559.7 588.6 604.5
Consumer goods 279.2 272.7 288.4 306.0 319.0 331.7 343.4 365.6 387.6 395.5
Food 238.3 226.9 240.2 252.3 256.4 266.4 273.7 290.7 308.0 311.9
Animal products 118.2 118.2 119.4 123.4 127.5 129.2 137.6 148.8 165.7 170.1
Processed foods 14.9 19.3 21.1 24.8 20.1 24.4 26.1 26.5 27.3 28.1
Basic foods 94.5 77.5 86.7 89.7 93.0 95.3 92.0 95.8 94.7 93.9
Beverages 10.8 11.9 13.1 14.4 15.9 17.6 18.0 19.6 20.2 19.8
Soft goods 35.2 39.3 40.8 44.3 50.8 52.6 56.1 58.7 62.1 64.9
Durables 5.7 6.5 7.3 9.4 11.8 12.7 13.6 16.2 17.5 18.8
Consumer services 165.4 167.7 171.0 173.7 179.5 186.2 189.3 194.0 201.0 209.0
Housing 72.0 72.7 73.5 73.9 74.9 76.1 77.4 79.3 82.1 85.5
Utilities 5.1 5.3 5.6 5.8 6.0 6.2 6.4 6.7 7.0 7.4
Transportation 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 7.2 8.1 8.6 9.6 10.5 11.4
Communications 2.4 2.6 2.8 2.9 3.1 3.3 3.5 3.7 3.8 4.0
Repair and personal care 10.7 10.7 10.7 10.7 10.8 10.9 10.4 10.1 10.6 12.0
Recreation 7.7 8.0 8.4 8.6 9.5 10.8 11.2 11.5 12.2 12.3
Education 40.9 41.2 41.8 42.0 43.1 44.2 44.7 45.0 45.6 46.2
Health 21.5 21.6 22.3 23.3 24.9 26.6 27.1 28.1 29.1 30.2
Gross national product 741.7 752.2 784.0 807.3 832.4 889.2 946.8 965.7 1,021.1 1,061.2
Population (million) 180.1 183.0 186.0 190.0 193.0 196.2 199.7 203.2 206.8 210.5
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 399 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.