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Soviet Union: Real GDP

Millions of local currency · 1860–1991 · 128 observations · rGDP

1991
1.82 trillionlocal currency
Change on 1990
−12.6%year on year
Average growth, 1981–1991
+1.3%a year

Real GDP

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Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
19911,822,000
19902,085,701
19892,134,756
19882,072,503
19871,964,433
19861,909,153
19851,848,146
19841,806,561
19831,737,088
19821,662,385

Sources

  • Asian Historical Statistics1860–1913
  • Markevich & Harrison1913–1928
  • Maddison Project Database1913–1991
  • Mitchell1928–1955
  • COMECON1965–1991

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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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