Net material product

The net material product ( English net material product , NMP) was an economic indicator that in socialist countries instead of the GDP / GNP was used.

General

The net material product was part of the "system of national accounts balance sheets" ( English System of Balances of the National Economy ), also briefly Material Product System known that in the former Soviet Union and other countries with planned economy economic system was used. The net material product was a method of creating national accounts within planned economies. Its market economy counterpart is the "System of National Accounts", which is still used today by the World Bank and the OECD .

It is called a “net material product” because it only recognizes and statistically records material work, which according to Marxist doctrine is solely “productive”. The terminology as a net material product was common within the Economic Commission for Europe , while in the GDR the term “produced national income” was used.

detection

The net material product lacks important services that are included in the gross national product. These include non-material services such as education , public administration , art , personal services or health care that were viewed as “ unproductive work ”. In the absence of these services, the two aggregates cannot be compared with one another.

statistics

Shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union , statistics showed the level of the net material product in today's successor states of the Soviet Union in 1990:

country	Population in millions	Net material product in million rubles	Net material product per capita
Armenia	3.293	6,977	2.119
Azerbaijan	7.131	10,712	1,502
Estonia	1,583	5,469	3,455
Georgia	5.456	10,866	1,992
Kazakhstan	16.691	33,362	1999
Kyrgyzstan	4.367	6,027	1,380
Latvia	2.687	8,849	3,293
Lithuania	3.723	9,999	2,686
Moldova	4,362	9,443	2.165
Russia	148.041	446.818	3,018
Tajikistan	5.248	5,490	1,046
Turkmenistan	3,622	5,321	1,469
Ukraine	51.839	117.992	2,276
Uzbekistan	20,322	23,603	1,161
Belarus	10.259	29,510	2,876
total	288.624	730.438	2,530

With an NMP of 3,455 rubles per capita, Estonia was the economically wealthiest country in the former monetary union, followed by Latvia , Russia , Belarus and Lithuania . As is often the case, the small states also led in these statistics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Clemens Muth, Currency Disintegration - The End of Currency Unions , 1997, p. 191 FN 318
2. ↑ François Lequiller / Derek Blades (OECD), Understanding National Accounts , 2006, p 367
3. ↑ Wolfgang Heidrich, Security Policy of Germany: New Constellations, Risks, Instruments , 1992, p. 186
4. ↑ Francesco Kneschaurek, Swiss entrepreneurs in a Changing World , 1980, p 18
5. ^ Clemens Muth, Currency Disintegration - The End of Currency Unions , 1997, p. 191