Masaaki Kuboniwa is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan as well as Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Peace and Strategic Studies, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.Yasushi Nakamura is Director at the Center for Economic and Social Studies in Asia, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan and author of Soviet Monetary Policy in the Soviet Union published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.Kazuhiro Kumo is Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan and author of Demography of Russia published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.Yoshisada Shida is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Research Division, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia, Niigata, Japan.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Characteristics and Development of State Statistics.- 3. Population.- 4. Labor.- 5. Agriculture.- 6. Industry.- 7. Money and Finance.- 8. State Budget.- 9. Foreign Trade.- 10. Supplement: Soviet Foreign Trade Earnings Revisited.- 11. Gross Domestic Products.- 12. Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-day Russia.

Masaaki Kuboniwa is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan as well as Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Peace and Strategic Studies, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.Yasushi Nakamura is Director at the Center for Economic and Social Studies in Asia, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan and author of Soviet Monetary Policy in the Soviet Union published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.Kazuhiro Kumo is Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan and author of Demography of Russia published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.Yoshisada Shida is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Research Division, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia, Niigata, Japan.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Characteristics and Development of State Statistics.- 3. Population.- 4. Labor.- 5. Agriculture.- 6. Industry.- 7. Money and Finance.- 8. State Budget.- 9. Foreign Trade.- 10. Supplement: Soviet Foreign Trade Earnings Revisited.- 11. Gross Domestic Products.- 12. Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-day Russia.

Masaaki Kuboniwa is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan as well as Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Peace and Strategic Studies, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.Yasushi Nakamura is Director at the Center for Economic and Social Studies in Asia, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan and author of Soviet Monetary Policy in the Soviet Union published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.Kazuhiro Kumo is Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan and author of Demography of Russia published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.Yoshisada Shida is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Research Division, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia, Niigata, Japan.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Characteristics and Development of State Statistics.- 3. Population.- 4. Labor.- 5. Agriculture.- 6. Industry.- 7. Money and Finance.- 8. State Budget.- 9. Foreign Trade.- 10. Supplement: Soviet Foreign Trade Earnings Revisited.- 11. Gross Domestic Products.- 12. Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-day Russia.