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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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Indexes of GNP by End Use
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 71956 1957
Consumption 38.5 38.8 41.1 43.9 46.3 48.9 51.2” 54.7
1958 1959
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Consumer goods 37.8 37.5 40.3 43.7 46.2 48.9 51.5
Food 43.9 42.5 45.7 49.0 50.6 53.5 55.9: 69-:2
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Animal products 38.9 39.6 40.6 42.9 45.0 46.4 50.3 55.3 f 62.7fi
Processed foods 26.0 34.4 38.2 45.9 37.7 46.5 50.1” 52.4 54.8 57.5
Basic foods 72.4 60.4 68.6 72.6 76.4 79.6 1s.2__ 32.23 1
Beverages 20.8 23.3 26.0 29.2 32.9 36.9 385 42.6 .. .11-§.._ ._.._‘.*“-.7 .. ..
Soft goods 24.5 27.7 29.3 32.5 37.8 39.8 43.2 46.1 49.6 52.7
Durables 10.8 12.6 14.4 18.8 24.1 26.3 18-8.- 34.8 18-1:41.-9 7.
Consumer services 39.9 41.1 42.6 44.2 46.4 48.9 59-1. 52.8 . ..._5..5-7.. . .. .29.-9
Housing 48.1 49.4 50.7 52.1 53.6 55.4 57.3 59.8 63.0 66.7
Utilities 25.1 26.6 28.4 30.0 31.6 33.4 35.3j 37.1 .19-9.::4?-9
Transportation 13.6 15.1 16.6 18.6 20.8 24.0 25.7__ 29.4 32.s________3_c>.0 _
Communications 22.4 24.5 26.7 28.4 30.8 33.1 35-.9. 38.4 40.6 43.2
Repair and personal care 42.1 42.9 43.7 44.6 45.6 46.6 45.1“ 45.0 48.0 55.3
Recreation 37.6 39.9 42.4 44.4 49.6 57.6 so.s_A_ _§.3_~.<:....... -6 I€:7---; .
Education 42.8 43.8 45.1 46.3 48.3 50.3 51.8
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Health 39.0 39.8 41.7 44.5 48.5 52.5 54.2 57.4 60.6"” W6-1.1
Investment 17.6 20.9 20.9 24.2 26.0 31.5 35.8 J19-2. _.‘_‘.‘i~_“_.-......_f‘_?;§ .. ...
New fixed investment 17.9 21.6 21.4 24.9 26.6 32.2 36.1
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40.5 44.8 49.1
Machinery and equipment 13.5 13.5 14.8 15.6 18.4 22.5 2s.3_
Construction and other
capital outlays
20.7 23.8 26.6 29.2 32.4 35.9 38.1 41.6
Net additions to livestock 6.2 39.1 — 10.4 20.3 -4.4 38.8 59.4; 78.5
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Capital repair 15.7 17.3 18.7 20.9 23.0 27.9 33.2 38.0 42.9 50.3
Other government expenditures 51.3 51.2 56.0 53.6 54.0 57.6 65-ii 28.2 91-i.:.Ié§-76
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Government administrative
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97.0 97.0 96.8 93.2 86.3 77.1 75.5 072.1
General agricultural pro-
grams
66.7 72.3 77.7 71.1 73.7 53.1 5179*" 055.157
72.8 70.8
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Forestry 121.8 123.9 126.0 113.3 109.3 105.6 103.270 97.4
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
Culture 39.9 41.2 42.5 43.6 45.5 47.3 47.87 480.5
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Municipal services 53.4 55.4 57.5 58.7 59.8 60.9 e2.5_ e3_.1 .._<aa2.-_-..<»_4~é
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Civilian police 118.3 116.6 114.8 110.7 98.9 87.0 83-1. 1.3.-8 78.2 74.9
Research and development 18.2 20.0 21.6 22.7 24.0 26.2 29.6 32.8
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Outlays n.e.c. 49.2 48.6 55.5 52.4 54.3 61.4 11-21 31.7 65.3______s].9 g
Gross national product 34.9 35.9 38.0 40.0 41.9 45.5 -__i9.-2.. E 1.-2.
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