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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-l l (Continued)
Percentage Shares of GNP by End Use
1960 71975 1962 7777196737777719§17777 196577 7771966 1967 196s 1969
Percent
Consumption 57.7 56.2 56.3 59.6 54.4 54.0 54.2 __
$.67‘ _5.1.8jj;_s5.8
Consumer goods 37.7 36.3 36.2 38.2 34.1 33.9 34.1 34.7 34.9 35.7
7
Food 29.4 28.3 28.1 30.0 26.4 26.0 25.9 1§Z7.7.7i_3.-717772715-377777.77
Animal products 16.3 15.5 15.3 17.0 14.0 13.9 14.2 __ 14.5 14.6 14.9
Processed foods 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.§ 2.7 278777
Basic foods 8.5 8.1 8.0 7.9 7.4 7.2 6.s___ 6.7
7777
Beverages 1.9 1.9 2.0 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.1
6.5 6.3
2.2 2.3 2.5
Soft goods 6.4 6.2 6.2 6.3 5.9 5.9
7 6.737 7767.757
Durables 1.9 1.9 1.9 1.9 1.9 727277 772377 27.47777
Consumer services 20.0 19.8 20.1 21.4 20.3
2071777777 77777197797
7 77
772071777 77
Housing 8.2 8.1 8.2 8.6 8.0 7.7677
7.4
77 7.4
Utilities 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 70797 07.9
77
77717.07 7 7
Transportation 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.6 1.7 1.7
Communications 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5
Repair and personal care 1.1 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 17.1 71.17 17.2777
Recreation 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.077
Education 4.4 4.4 4.6 5.0 4.8 4.7777 7774.77 77747.7
Health 2.9 2.9 2.8 3.0 2.8 2.6 2.677 72.6
777
lnvestment 24.2 25.5 25.6 23.9 26.5
20.1
7.8
0.9
0.4
1.0 __
27.3 __g 26.o____726.1777777777277.0
77
New fixed investment 20.0 21.2 21.0 18.6 21.4
0.9 W
1.1 1.0
2.7
22.1 21.1 21.1
21.727777777777221
Machinery and equipment 4.7 4.8 5.2 5.8 5.9
6.1
2.0 2.1
7.7
1.5 1.5
1.0
4.8
77
6.0 6.0 6.7277 6.37777 76747
7
Construction and other
capital outlays
14.7 14.5 14.7 15.4 14.5
20.1
777
0.4
77
4.8
2.7
26.2
14.7 14.6
Net additions to livestock 0.6 1.8 1.1 -2.6 0.9
15.2 15.1 715.4
1.5 0.6 -0.3 -0.2 0.2
Capital repair 4.2 4.3 4.5 5.3 5.1 5.1 5.0 4.9 4.9
____A_ _. Zém. ..
Other government expenditures 18.1 18.3 18.2 16.5 19.0 18.7
7 19.76777 7179.277 7777771791 777717772777 77
Government administrative
services
3.2 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9
General agricultural pro-
grams
0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
7777 771I3777770.§77777770.73 7
2.9
7
770.737
Forestry 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
State administration and
the administrative or-
gans of social organiza-
tions
1.5 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.4
Culture 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4
Municipal services 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2___0.2 0.2 0.2 707.277
Civilian police 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
7777 0.477 770.4
Research and development 2.4 2.6 2.8 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0 __ 3.0
77773.07777737.717 7
Outlays n.e.c. 12.5 12.7 12.4 10.5 13.3 13.0 13.8 13.4 13.3
7
17717
Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 1. 00.0 100.0 100.0 1917-97.7.7.71E>79Yi> 7...7_7l59§<5.7.7 Q-
77
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