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BUDGET DATA

US Budgets

Download Raw Spending Data Series 1792-2016

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.

Warning: The raw data series typically do not extend the whole length of US history. Check out charts if you want full-length data series.

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(501) Elementary, secondary, and vocational education(B21) Federal Intergovernmental – Education(E12) Current Operations - Elementary and Secondary Education(F12) Construction - Elementary and Secondary Education(G12) Other Capital Outlay - Elementary and Secondary Education(SEL) Local schools
190224.100000238
190325.900000256
190425.700000275
190528.800000295
19063100000317
190733.900000340
190830.100000365
190932.200000392
191033.400000421
191134.300000453
191237.400000486
191339.100000522
191436.500000589
191538.700000664
191649.600000749
191759.700000845
191875.800000952
191978.3000001074
192088.4000001212
192173.6000001366
192273.4000001541
192385.4000001626
192486.9000001716
192590.6000001811
192696.9000001911
192795.5000002017
192897.4000002024
1929103.6000002030
193091.2000002037
193176.5000002043
193258.7000002050
193356.4000001839
193466000001628
193573.3000001766
193683.8000001904
193791.9000002038
193886.1000002172
193992.2000002232
1940101.4000002292
1941126.7000002259
1942161.9000002225
1943198.6000002285
1944219.8000002344
1945223000002615
1946222.2000002886
1947244.1000003625
1948269.1000004363
1949267.2000005135
1950293.7000005906
1951339.3000006384
1952358.3000006862
1953379.3000007822
1954380.4000008947
1955414.70000010129
1956437.40000011165
1957461.10000011657
1958467.20000013032
1959506.60000014034
1960526.40000015166
1961544.80000016608
1962585.7482000017739
1963617.8553000018759
1964663.6579000020399
1965719.1719000021966
1966787.71627000025091
1967832.42310000027590
1968909.82516000029305
1969984.42470000033752
19701038.32893000037461
19711126.83333000041766
19721237.93686000045658
19731382.33573000048789
19741499.53573000053059
19751637.74349000061485
19761824.64200000067674
19772030.14638000071546
19782293.85186000076703
19792562.26123000083385
19802788.16893000092930
19813126.870990000100535
19823253.267220000105761
19833534.662580000112945
19843930.964830000120896
19854217.575980000131987
19864460.178020000145111
19874736.478690000156910
19885100.483770000169694
19895482.191500000185851
19905800.599180000202009
19915992.1113720000217643
19926342.312402277910002057360001482670065941800
19936667.413481304129002182080001424920078526900
19947085.214258322036002272890001281790068749600
19957414.714694340448002394330001530370095041900
19967838.514871362243002504850001977000090979100
19978270.4615073359864002617740002292380099002900
19988727.02166063892230028186700025030500111671000
19999286.86175894205080029910400028338000124297000
20009884.17205784587350032003100032389400127603000
200110218228585010120033945000036511100128022000
200210572.4258795599710035792200040555200127391000
200311067.8314736176710037818600040948400122595000
200411788.9343607033510039890000041176700118651000
200512554.5382717474470041928000042244200123192000
200613310.9397107830220044176800047531700131960000
200713969.3384277952070046944800051889400136429000
200814270.5389188064040049543100055131000151545000
200914014.8532068882290050825600056226900131144000
201014551.87326100000
201115079.67822600000
201215812.54994400000
201316752.44274400000
201417782.24261200000
201518804.14263300000
201619790.54267100000

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State Finances Update for FY 2010

On December 14, 2011 the US Census Bureau released data on state finances for FY 2010 here, including spending and revenue for each individual state and for all states combined.

On December 27, 2011 we updated state and local spending and revenue data as follows:

  1. We replaced "guesstimated" state spending and revenue data for FY2010 using the data from the Census Bureau.
  2. We replaced "guesstimated" local spending and revenue data for FY 2010 with estimates for each spending and revenue category using the trends in state finances between FY 2009 and FY 2010.
  3. We replaced "guesstimated" state revenue data for FY 2011 with data from the Census Bureau's quarterly state tax summary here.
  4. We replaced "guesstimated" local revenue data for FY 2011 with estimates for each category using trends for each category of state revenue between FY 2010 and FY 2011.
  5. We replaced "guesstimated" state and local spending and revenue for FY 2012 thru FY2017 with new guesstimates based on the latest Census Bureau data for FY 2010 state finances and FY 2011 quarterly tax data.
The Census Bureau expects to release local spending and revenue data for FY 2010 in July 2012.

Highlights: State spending on Welfare was up from a "guesstimated" $164 billion to $237 billion.  Business and Other Revenue was up from a "guesstimated" $174 billion to $456 billion.  This reflects the $289 billion profit reported on state pension plans for FY 2010, a partial recovery from the FY 2009 loss of $524 billion.

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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

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

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

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