Mark Harrison, ³Accounting for war: Soviet production, employement and defence burden, 1940 - 1945², Cambridge University press 1996. Table 5.17. GNP of the great powers, 1939-45 (billions international dollars and 1985 prices) 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1. USA 788 851 1001 1190 1407 1522 1494 2. UK 215 237 258 265 271 260 249 3. USSR 308 345 297 227 252 300 284 4. Germany 271 273 290 294 300 308 216 5. Italy 114 115 114 112 102 83 65 6. Japan 135 139 141 141 143 136 68 Rows 1,2,4,5,6 from Maddison, A. ³Dynamic forces in capitalist development: a long-run comparative view², Oxford, 1991. Row 3 Harrisonıs responsibility***. Table 5.18. The military burden: five great powers, 1939 - 44 (per cent of national income) 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1. USA 2 3 14 40 53 54 2. UK 15 44 53 52 55 53 3. USSR 17 28 61 61 53 4. Germany 32 49 56 66 71 5. Italy 10 21 30 31 40 Rows (per cent of): 1. NNP at current factor cost (Harrison, Economic History Review, 2nd ser., vol 41(2), 1988, pp.171-92) 2. net national expenditure at current prices (Howlett, P., in ³The economic history of Britain since 1700², 2nd ed., vol 3, Cambridge, pp. 1-31) 3. GNP at 1937 factor cost (Harrisonıs responsibility***) 4. NNP at current prices (Overy, R.J. ³War and economy of the Third Reich², Oxford, 1994. 5. GDP at current prices (Zamagni, V. ³The economic history of Italy, 1860-1990: recovery after decline², Oxford, 1993. *** Harrison makes a case by treating the Soviet production at 1937 factor cost (or prices) instead of current factor cost (or prices). Should not he do the same with the others? Hessel Duncan Hall, ³North American Supply², Her Majestyıs Stationery Office, London, 1955, p. 421. Volume of munition produced (billions of 1944 US dollars) 1935-1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 US 1.5 1.5 4.5 20 38 42 Canada 0.5 1 1.5 1.5 UK 2.5 3.5 6.5 9 11 11 USSR** 8 5 8.5 11.5 14 16 Germany 12 6 6 8.5 13.5 17 Japan 2 1 2 3 4.5 6 ** Current prices, perhaps. -- D. Protsenko