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Saturday November 22, 2008 
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Download Government Spending Data Series 1902-2013

Warning: Under Construction!

You can download any of the raw data series used to compile the government spending data in usgovernmentspending.com. You select the data series you want and then copy-paste the tab delimited data from a textbox on this page into your spreadsheet.

Download Instructions:

Prepare a suite of data for download by making a selection from one of the dropdown menus below. You can select:

  1. A group of functionally related spending data series
  2. An individual spending data series
You can also remove individual data series that you don’t want.

Select Functional Data Series Group: Select a group of data series to download (you can add individual data series later):

Add Individual Data Series: Select Spending Data Series to add to download (you can add more later):

Change Data Units: You can download data in raw format (i.e., in the units used in the database for each item, or in $ billion, $ million, or percent of GDP.

raw
$ billion
$ million
percent GDP

Select Fiscal Year: You can select the budget for which you want to download estimated federal spending.

Copy and Paste: When you have created the dataset you want then just copy the tab-delimited text in the textbox below (click cursor in text box, then press ctrl-A then press ctrl-C) and paste it into your spreadsheet.

Here is a formatted version of the data you have selected.You can remove a data series by selecting “out” in the dropdown for each data series.

YearGDP(806) General purpose fiscal assistance(808) Other general government(B30) Federal Intergovernmental - General Local Government Support
1962567.6212280
1963598.7232630
1964640.42411500
1965687.1238390
1966752.9268790
1967811.83051010
1968866.63391260
1969948.6430400
19701012.25351210
19711079.95351260
19721178.36721730
19731307.673501570
19741439.368883630
19751560.771844240
19761736.572323930
19771974.395694480
19782217.084424480
19792500.783695230
19802726.785825690
19813054.768547450
19823227.663905030
19833440.764527670
19843840.267685550
19854141.563535190
19864412.464314800
19874647.116218080
19885008.6181618920
19895400.520618060
19905735.421617900
19915935.1210012700
19926239.918651767448750
19936575.519351300448040
19946961.31937970450241
19957325.822201596524568
19967694.12059992508221
19978182.421891270530480
19988627.92188955584929
19999125.319582228613380
20009709.820842206653480
200110057.923081779733436
200210377.424032254679357
200310808.674642079693280
200411499.9767523451197574
200512237.933332440723105
200613015.537981164687153
200713667.535431636748942
200814311.540261698763344
200915027.041111487778023
201015792.081551442792984
201116580.240741496808233
201217395.042731689823775
201318243.340441490839616

 


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