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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 2 (Continued)
Indexes of GNP by End Use
1970=100
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980
Consumption 100.0 103.6 106.1 110.5 114.6 119.1 121.8 125.3 199-9 1_§.92@.---1..9§.-.
Consumer goods 100.0 103.6 105.6 110.4 114.5 119.2 121.3 125.3 128.6 1312.10 114.6
Food 100.0 102.4 102.5 107.1 110.4 113.8 114.1 116.7 119.4 121.8 122.1
Animal products 100.0 102.1 103.9 109.3 113.5 118.3 118.2 119.7 122.0’ 12i%:§1l£$li
Processed foods 100.0 102.3 103.9 110.3 113.5 114.2 119.2 123.6 1_127.9 130.4 111111311 .8
Basic foods 100.0 103.6 99.4 103.3 102.5 102.8 101.0 106.4 108.0 107.1 105.3
Beverages 100.0 101.3 101.4 100.0 109.2 114.8 117.6 118.2
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124.11 129-1 @195-91
Soft goods 100.0 104.7 107.8 111.2 115.2 121.5 127.2 131.4 13121 140.911 1417.7
Durables 100.0 113.5 131.0 142.1 154.0 168.9 180.1 196.7 205.0 213.5 227.9
Consumer services 100.0 103.6 107.0 110.6 114.8 118.9 122.6 125.5 119-1‘ 1535.. ...-1.9L§.
Housing 100.0 102.7 105.5 108.4 111.2 114.1 116.8 119.5 122.2 _11214.8 1121714
Utilities 100.0 106.8 113.8 120.8 128.2 135.7 143.8 149.5 156.6 163.0 170.4
Transportation 100.0 106.9 114.8 121.5 131.2 141.2 149.5 148.8 151.8 _
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Communications 100.0 107.3 115.2 123.5 1311.4 142.0 151.1 1519.6
161.4 1 1671.161
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Repair and personal care 100.0 106.4 113.8 122.0 130.1 138.1 146.3 153.5 164.5 175.9 188.0
Recreation 100.0 102.3 103.4 105.4 107.0 108.0 106.3 106.7 109.5
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Education 100.0 102.9 104.2 106.5 109.7 112.7 115.3 1118.0
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1_ 121.7
Health 100.0 102.3 104.5 107.0 110.2 112.6 114.9 117.5
124-9 .-1.2.7.-9.
121.3
Investment 100.0 104.8 109.2 119.3 127.1 129.9 140.2 147.4
124.3 125.2
152.9
New fixed investment 100.0 103.5 106.7 115.4 122.5 126.4 135.9 141.9 146.41
Machinery and equipment 100.0 105.3 113.9 122.5 134.8 152.0 166.8 176.2
199-9 15.9-2..
191.0 199.2 208.6
Construction and other
capital outlays
100.0 106.4 111.7 117.5 122.9 128.3 131.3 132.9
1418.5 11512.41
135.5 136.4 139.3
Net additions to livestock 100.0 53.6 -2.3 45.2 45.2 -47.7 19.1 164.2
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Capital repair 100.0 111.4 121.5 138.0 149.5 147.0 161.1 174.0 184.6 18959911197181
Other government expenditures 100.0 103.2 99.7 113.9 113.8 106.6 114.1 114.6 119.9 1111.15” 111414
Government administrative
services
100.0 104.2 108.1 111.7 116.4 120.4 124.0 127.4 131.6 135.1J_mW1319111
General agricultural pro-
grams
100.0 106.8 111.6 116.1 120.8 126.5 138.0 141.1 149.9 155.7 164.4
Forestry 100.0 100.4 102.7 102.2 103.7 _1o4.4 103.5 1119-9 _. 1119-9 19.9-9 1i11..1119§1§l
State administration and
the administrative or-
gans of social organiza-
tions
100.0 103.3 107.0 110.4 115.0 118.8 121.3 124.0 127.2 130.6 134.3
Culture 100.0 106.9 111.5 116.7 123.0 127.9 132.8 140.3 146.1 11149121 1
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Municipal services 100.0 105.9 111.1 115.2 120.0 124.4 127.4 132.0 137.6 141.9 146.0
Civilian police 100.0 103.3 107.0 110.4 115.0 118.8 121.3 124.0 197-9 -.1.3.<?3L_.-L34~3..
Research and development 100.0 106.7 114.6 122.4 127.8 134.1 136.1 139.6 144.5 15o17_11_115171.121
Outlays n.e.c. 100.0 102.0 93.7 112.2 109.3 95.8 105.9 104.8 110.4 93.7 81.8
Gross national product 100.0 103.9 105.9 113.6 118.0 120.0 125.7 129.7 134.1 1
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