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What is the Total US Government Spending?

In FY 2015, total US government spending, federal, state, and local, was “guesstimated” to be $6.16 trillion, with federal $3.69 trillion; state $1.53 trillion; local $1.58 trillion.

Total Budgeted¹ 2016 Government Spending

There are three levels of governments in the US: federal, state, and local. The following table shows Total spending. Total spending includes federal, state, and local spending.

Total

Total 2016 Spending by Function (Federal + State + Local)

	Function	-yr 2016 +yr
	Total Spending	$6.5 trillion
	Pensions	$1.3 trillion
	Health Care	$1.5 trillion
	Education	$0.9 trillion
	Defense	$0.9 trillion
	Welfare	$0.5 trillion
		Spending: guesstimated²

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Note:
1. Federal spending after 2014 is budgeted.
2. State spending after 2012 and local spending after 2012 are “guesstimated” by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

Data Sources:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

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Government Spending in the US

Government spending includes federal, state, and local spending. Intergovernmental transfers represent federal grants and transfers spent by states or local governments on programs at the state or local level.

	2015	2016	2017

Federal Spending	3.8	4.0	4.2
State Spending	1.5	1.6	1.6
Local Spending	1.6	1.6	1.7
Intergovernmental Transfers	-0.6	-0.7	-0.7
Total Spending	6.2	6.5	6.8
Spending: budgeted guesstimated² estimated

You can look at details of the data here. You can look at deficits here and debt here. You can create custom charts here and download data here. You can look at the federal budget here. You can take a course in spending here.

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Spending Data Sources

Spending data is from official government sources.

Federal spending data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.

Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.

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Federal spending data begins in 1792.

State and local spending data begins in 1890.

State and local spending data for individual states begins in 1957.

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Data Sources for 2016:

GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

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US, State Population Update for 2015

On December 22, 2015 the US Census Bureau released its national and state population estimates for July 1, 2015. On December 22, 2015 usgovernmentspending.com updated its US and state population data as follows:

We updated 2010-2015 population data for US and states using data from US Census Bureau Population Estimates: vintage 2015 in file NST-EST2015-01.xlsx.
We projected 2016 thru 2020 for US and states assuming population rate change for 2014-15.
We updated 2016 thru 2020 for US using data from US Census Bureau 2014 National Population Projections in file NP2014-T1.xls.

usgovernmentspending.com uses population data in computing per capita spending and revenue data. You can see per capita spending data in a chart here, and in a table of spending here.

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