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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.

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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