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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. 54 …Rail, sea, inland- waterway, bus, and air transport are measured by passenger-kilometers; tram, trolleybus, and…
  • p. 57 …The freight transportation index is a weight- ed average of rail, sea, inland-waterway, oil-pipeline…
  • p. 98 …W Sea 0.263 per tkm Ibid, p. 1_5_1. Wig Inland water 0.418…
  • p. 99 …Mode Physical Measure Sources Ilail, inland water, Ton-kilometers sea, air, and oil pipeline Transport i…
  • p. 100 …Year (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Rail Sea Inland Water Oil Pipeline Truck (billion tkm) (billion…
  • p. 300 …fed Feed potatoes ~are priced at the sea'sonally low pro- curement-supply price (63 rubles…
  • p. 344 …It is a weighted composite of physical series for 9 modes of transport—rail, sea, river…
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Table B-1
1972 Construction lnput Weights
Input-Output Sector Purchases by Con-
struction (thousand
rubles, producers‘
prices)
Share of
Purchases
(percent)
Ferrous metals 3,103,673 8.6
Input-Output Sector Purchases by Con- Share of
struction (thousand Purchases
rubles, producers‘ (percent)
prices)
Basic chemical products Q 129,655 ..
°-_4
Nonferrous metals 205,220 0.6 Aniline dye products 31,056 _., ___ ELL __.
Refractory materials 165,739 0.5
E811 l 105,696 0.3
Oil extraction 13,358 8
Qil Efining 566,432 1.6
Gas 16,550 a
Peat 6,897 a
Oil shales 7,591 a
Electric power 504,205 1.4
Energy and power m&e b 35,779 0.1
iilectrotechnical m&e 494,980 1.4
Machine tools 9,753 a
Forge-pressing m&e 2,458 a
Precision instruments 52,269 0.1
Mining and metallurgical
m&e _
240,970 0.7
Pumps and chemical
equipment
35,591 0.1
Logging and paper m&e 11,817 a
Hoisting and transport
equipment
67,871 0.2
Synthetic resins and 41,847
plastics
0.1
Synthetic fibers 2,980 a
Organic-synthetic 25,594
products M
TM (Ii
Paint and lacquer M 610,260 1.7
Rubber products _ 313,506
Other chemical products 132_,410
_.__i
0.9 _ _
0.4
Logging i 437,967 1.2
T“
Sawmill and lumber 3,206,976
products W
Furniture W" 26,348
2.5‘
0
0.1
Paper and pulp W 79,506 0.2
Wood chemistry ____ 4,031 a
Construction materials _1_2_,621,2l 5 _ ____ _. 34_-?__.__ ,_
Glass __ 379,175 1.0
Textiles 187,357 0.5
Sewn goods _: 375,049 1.-_9__,___,
Other light industry _ 69,220 0.2
Meat products _ 1 1,018 a
Construction m&e 198,056 0.5 Dairy products 7,025 1!
Transport m&e 7,942 a Flour and bread W 947 a
Automobiles 329,658 0.9 Other foods ___ 86,257 0.2
WT
A§§i3u|ru§§iF;§r= 148,592 0.4 Crops ___ 34,820
“T o. i
Radioelectronics and other
machine building
412,753 1.1
Sanitary engineering
products
1 ,131,383
—
3.1
Other metalwares 540,714 1.5
Metal structures 1,713,501 4.7
ilepair of m&e 914,314 2.5
Animal husbandry 11,718 8
Transportation and 5,841,370
communications W
_i
-_._
Trade and distribution 465,452 _‘"W*i1l3
_
Total 36,176,521 100.0
=* = Less than 0.05 percent.
1’ m&e = machinery and equipment.
Source: Dimitri M. Gallik, Barry L. Kostinskiy, and Vladimir G.
Treml, Input-Output Structure of the Soviet Economy: 1972, US
Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Washington,
D.C., forthcoming.
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