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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.

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(SRE) Employee retirement(X11) Employee Retirement - Benefit Payments(X12) Employee Retirement - Withdrawals(X14) Employee Retirement - Other Payments (Disc. 2005)
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23000
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37000
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62000
192795.50000140
67000
192897.40000160
54000
1929103.60000280
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193091.20000210
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193176.50000240
89000
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75000
193356.40000310
100000
1934660000390
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193573.30000310
116000
193683.80000440
125000
193791.9000054194
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193886.10000645
143000
193992.200006610
156000
1940101.4000069538
169000
1941126.700007363
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1942161.9000090859
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1943198.60000901060
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1944219.80000103185
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19452230000184253
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1946222.200002661201
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1947244.10000255416
267000
1948269.10000239512
433000
1949267.200002561862
520000
1950293.700002682107
361000
1951339.300003773119
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1952358.300003003547
530000
1953379.300004234060
585000
1954380.400004323276
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1956437.400005075361
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1844000
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2298000
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5654000
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4155000
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4757000
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19751637.71323864658-10258-916256555207
12354000
19761824.61548473899-10761-963281458703
14533000
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9567000
19782293.81985393861-12401-1060323773141
19027000
19792562.222676104073-13095-1114349483410
21923000
19802788.126611118547-14638-1204371996581
14008000
19813126.831296139584-16473-14303984117757
30382000
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17813000
19833534.636530170724-21706-17784429128972
19255000
19843930.938080178223-23219-20444580150312
46180000
19854217.538621188623-24648-25094759169822
24414000
19864460.141392198757-25434-28574742182518
26521000
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19967838.568071349671-27259-62784469311869
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200512554.593351523305-47977-109414459493646
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201014551.8119867706737-62100-149364097539996
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201215812.5122816767019-69052-152054050563259
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201316752.4131387807976-69089-158213809624032
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201417782.2136175852996-71256-165183641659528
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201518804.1140713900680-73473-173893440696632
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201619790.5149861952010-75639-184473407743642
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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