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Soviet Union: Consumer price index

Index, 2015 = 100 · 1940–1991 · 46 observations · CPI

1991
100.0index, 2015 = 100
Change on 1990
+95.4%year on year
Average growth, 1981–1991
+8.4%a year

Consumer price index

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30405060708090100110194019501960197019801990Soviet UnionSoviet Union, 1940: 30.6Soviet Union
Index, 2015 = 100

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Recent values

Index, 2015 = 100

YearValue
1991100.0
199051.2
198948.9
198848.0
198748.0
198647.1
198546.2
198445.8
198346.2
198246.2

Sources

  • Mitchell1940–1964
  • COMECON1955–1991

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Soviet Union documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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