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Would you like to download government spending data from usgovernmentspending.com, spending data that covers all levels of government, United States federal, state, and local government spending? No problem. We have four ways you can download spending data. And more to come.

Fast Lane

Here is how you can get your government spending data for Fiscal Year 1918. You can download it:

As a simple text table. Click here.
As a tab-delimited table you can cut and paste into a spreadsheet. Click here.
As a simple html <table> without styling. Click here.
As a fully styled html <table> with all the styles included. Click here.

Slow Lane

Here is how to get your government spending data. You can use controls on the table below to change the data, including:

The fiscal year
The view
The level of spending detail
The units, including billions, millions, percent of GDP, percent of spending
An individual state

To get what you want, just follow the easy steps outlined below.

Step 1: Select the data set you want

In the table below, click the controls to get the data you want.

Click the “-1yr” and “+1yr” text-links or the “FY 1918” drop-down to change the year from 1918 to the year you want.
Click the “Change View” controls to change the data labels to the view you want.
Click the expander [+] controls to add more detail.
Click the “$ billion” drop-down to change the units.
Click the “United States” drop-down to change to an individual state.

Go ahead and use the controls on the table below to get the particular spending information you want to download.

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General Help: You can use controls on the table to change the output: units—e.g. percent of GDP, etc.— and fiscal year. You can select between the United States or an individual state. You can select the US budget year. You can drill down using the [+] control. You can create pie charts using controls along the bottom of the table, and bar charts using controls along the right and the bottom of the table.

FAQ

Help Topics: Use this Help Topic dropdown control to find out how you can adapt this table for your own needs.

Units: By default, values are displayed in billions of dollars. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select millions of dollars, percent of GDP, percent of federal total, and percent of overall total.

Fiscal Year: The default year displayed is the current US government fiscal year. But you can select any year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select a year to get close, then select the year you want. You can increase or decrease the year using the “yr” text links in the table heading.

United States Federal
State and Local Government Spending
-5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 1918 +1yr +5yr
Amounts in $ billion

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US or State: By default, the table shows values for governments in the United States overall. But you can select individual states by selecting the state dropdown control in the table heading or the text link right above it.

GDP: $75.8 billion(1)

Change View:	people default radical COFOG	Fed (2)	Gov. Xfer(3)	State (3)	Local (3)	Total	clk Bar Chart: Click on a chart icon to display a bar chart. There are chart icons along the base of the table; they create charts to depict the numbers in the chart columns. There are also chart icons along the right edge of the table; they create charts to depict the numbers in the table rows. [+] Drill-down: Click on the [+] to drill down to more detailed numbers. For federal spending line items (but not revenue) you can drill down three levels to view about 4,000 items of spending at the “agency code” level.
[+] Pensions		0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0
[+] Health Care		0.0	0.0	0.2		0.2
[+] Education		0.0	-0.0	1.1		1.1
[+] Defense		6.4	0.0	0.0		6.4
[+] Welfare		0.0	-0.0	0.1		0.1
[+] Protection		0.0	0.0	0.2		0.3
[+] Transportation		0.2	-0.0	0.8		1.0
[+] General Government		0.2	-0.0	0.6		0.8
[+] Other Spending		0.5	0.0	0.5		1.0
[+] Interest		0.2	0.0	0.2		0.4
[+] Balance		5.6	-0.0	0.0		5.7
[+] Total Spending		13.1	-0.0	3.8		16.8
[+] Gross Public Debt		14.6	0.0	7.0		21.6
	Click for Bar Chart or Pie Chart ->	Pie Chart: Click on a pie icon to display a pie chart. You can create a pie chart for federal, state and local, and overall spending/revenue.
Notes: interpolated actual US Budget Year: By default, the table displays budgeted and estimated numbers in the current US Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at previous budgeted numbers using the dropdown control at the bottom of the table. — using federal budget (1) Measuring Worth - U.S. GDP (2) Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970 (3) Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970

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OK. Now you are ready to download your data.

Step 2: Copy Your Data

We offer four ways of downloading your data:

A simple text table with the top-line numbers for total spending across all governments.
A tab-delimited table that you can cut and paste into your spreadsheet program.
A simple table using html <table> tags without styling.
A fully styled html <table> with all the styles included.

Top-line numbers

If you want just the top-line total numbers for overall government spending, federal, state, and local, then here they are:

Use your cursor to copy and paste the following lines into your own content:

United States Federal
State and Local Government Spending
Fiscal Year 1918
Amounts in $ billion

Pensions: $0.0
Health Care: $0.2
Education: $1.1
Defense: $6.4
Welfare: $0.1
Protection: $0.3
Transportation: $1.0
General Government: $0.8
Other Spending: $1.0
Interest: $0.4
Balance: $5.7
Total Spending: $16.8
Gross Public Debt: $21.6

source: usgovernmentspending.com

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Here is a bar chart of the top-line numbers. Right click the cursor to copy or save the image:

Tab-delimited Table

Here is the spending table with columns tab-delimited. You can cut and paste directly into a spreadsheet:

You can copy all the text in the textbox by clicking your cursor in the box. Then press Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste the text into your spreadsheet.

United States Federal, State and Local Government Spending Fiscal Year 1918 GDP: $75.8 billion(1) Amounts in $ billion Fed Gov. Xfer State Local Total Pensions 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Health Care 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 Education 0.0 -0.0 1.1 1.1 Defense 6.4 0.0 0.0 6.4 Welfare 0.0 -0.0 0.1 0.1 Protection 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 Transportation 0.2 -0.0 0.8 1.0 General Government 0.2 -0.0 0.6 0.8 Other Spending 0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 Interest 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 Balance 5.6 -0.0 0.0 5.7 Total Spending 13.1 -0.0 3.8 16.8 Gross Public Debt 14.6 0.0 7.0 21.6 source: usgovernmentspending.com

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Simple html <table>

Maybe you want to get the data formatted in html for insertion into your content as a table. Here is the data in html with a simple table setup. There are no fancy tags or styles. Just a straight table with <table>, <tr>, and <td> tags.

You can copy all the text in the textbox by clicking your cursor in the box. Then press Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste the html into your content.

<table><caption>United States Federal<br>State and Local Government Spending<br>Fiscal Year 1918<br>Amounts in $ billion<tr><td> <td>Fed<td>Gov.<br>Xfer<td>State<td>Local<td>Total<tr><td>Pensions<td>0.0<td>0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">0.0<td>0.0<tr><td>Health Care<td>0.0<td>0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">0.2<td>0.2<tr><td>Education<td>0.0<td>-0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">1.1<td>1.1<tr><td>Defense<td>6.4<td>0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">0.0<td>6.4<tr><td>Welfare<td>0.0<td>-0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">0.1<td>0.1<tr><td>Protection<td>0.0<td>0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">0.2<td>0.3<tr><td>Transportation<td>0.2<td>-0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">0.8<td>1.0<tr><td>General Government<td>0.2<td>-0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">0.6<td>0.8<tr><td>Other Spending<td>0.5<td>0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">0.5<td>1.0<tr><td>Interest<td>0.2<td>0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">0.2<td>0.4<tr><td>Balance<td>5.6<td>-0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">0.0<td>5.7<tr><td>Total Spending<td>13.1<td>-0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">3.8<td>16.8<tr><td>Gross Public Debt<td>14.6<td>0.0<td colspan=2 style="text-align:center">7.0<td>21.6<tr><td colspan=6>source: <a href="http://www.usgovernmentspending.com">usgovernmentspending.com</a></table>

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Fully styled table

Here in the textbox is the full table with styles but without controls. The styles are built around an id called “usgs342”. It shouldn’t interfere with your styles.

You can copy all the text in the textbox by clicking your cursor in the box. Then press Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste into your content.

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More Download Methods to Come

That’s all the download methods for now. But we are planning more.

Perhaps we will even let you load Javascript into your content and allow you to manipulate the controls on the table to allow your visitors to use the full functionality available to users here on usgovernmentspending.com.

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Best wishes from all of us at the usgovernmentspending.com team.

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Education

“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State

Mutual Aid

In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society

Government Expenditure

The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Democratic Capitalism

Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism