Soviet GDP vs US GDP in 1939

by Red-Right

What was the Soviet 1939 physical output (GDP) valued directly in US 1939 dollars as a precent of US GDP per capita. The same for Soviet industrial output.

Georgy_K_Zhukov
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The most recent Maddison project estimates for the 1939 GDP per Capita (in 1990 Geary-Khamis dollar eqivalents) of the Soviet Union and the United States are $2237 and $6561 respectively. This would make the Soviet figure just about 34% of the one for the US.

As u/Georgy_K_Zhukov's post implies however, a direct comparison of the 1939 figure might not give a complete picture of the capacity of their respective economies.

edit: Also note that GDP is not a measure of purely physical or industrial output. It is an attempt at estimating the value of all goods and services produced within an economy.