Political and Economic Problems of Population Under Socialism

Abstract

One of the features of the current five-year period, and of a future period that is presently being forecast, is the reduction in the influx of labor resources into social production. In 1960-1965, the average yearly increase in the number of workers, employees, and collective farmers employed in the national economy was 11.5 million, and in 1965-1970 - 11.4 million persons. According to available estimates, the total increase in labor resources under the Ninth Five-Year Plan will amount to 10 million persons. In 1959, the number of persons of working age comprised 57.4% of the nation's total population, and in 1970 - 54.0%. The share of the population of working age in overall population growth was 55.3% in 1939-1970 and 32.4% in 1959-1970. While in 1939 the share of men over 60 and of women over 55 years of age in the total USSR population was a mere 8.7%, in 1970 it was 15.1%.