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Government Spending Chart Factory

Create and customize your own charts of government spending.

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Google Chart or JpGraph or chart.js
or Add data series

Use the controls below to CUSTOMIZE chart or CHANGE the data series

Hover mouse over dropdown controls for help. Remember, you can display a maximum of five data series at once.

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Spending Units: By default, government spending is displayed in billions of dollars. But using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select billions of 2017 dollars, percent of GDP, 2017 dollars per capita, percent of federal spending, or percent of total spending.
Chart Title: You can create a title for your chart. Use the text field to enter a title and click the button to the right of the text field.
US or State: By default, the chart shows overall United States government spending. But you can select spending for individual states by selecting the state dropdown control in the table heading.
State, Local: By default, you can chart state spending or local spending by clicking a radio button in the selection table. But you can chart state-and-local combined by selecting state n local in the state/local dropdown control in the table heading.
View: There are many ways to view the spending data. The default view is functional. There is a census view that conforms with the spending categories used by the US Census Bureau in its Statistical Abstract. There is a COFOG view that categorizes spending using the UN methodology.
Linear/Log: By default, the data series are displayed as linear charts. But you can also select a log chart. Linear charts show constant amount changes as a straight line; Log charts show constant rates of change as a straight line.
Line/Bar: By default, the data series are displayed as line charts. But you can also select a bar chart.
Data Stack: By default, the data series are “stacked” when displayed on the chart. But you can change the setting to “un stack” the data series.
Chart Size: By default, the chart is displayed at medium size. But you can use the dropdown control to change the size.
Color: By default charts are displayed with color data lines and fill. You can change this to grayscale if you want. Or display a chart using Google API or chart.js API.
US Budget Year: By default, the chart displays budgeted and estimated federal spending in the current US Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at previous budgeted numbers using this dropdown control.
Mandatory: By default the chart shows all spending without regard to mandatory or discretionary. Select Mandatory if you want to chart only federal Mandatory spending, Discretionary if you want to chart only federal Discretionary spending, Both if you want both federal Mandatory and Discretionary spending broken out using the dropdown control in the table heading.

Data Range

Start Year: You can select any start 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 start year to get close, then select the start year you want.
End Year: You can select any end 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 an end year to get close, then select the end year you want.
Category (max 7)Sub-categoryFed Gov. 
Xfer 
State Local Total   
 
Data Series: Select a spending series you want to chart from a dropdown on the left. If you select on the bottom dropdown you will add a data series (up to a maximum of five). The right-hand dropdown allows you to replace a data series with a more narrowly focused series. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart.
? Total Spending: Federal: total outlays including grants to state and local. State and local: direct spending on programs *
  ? Select data series to add to chart
 All Categories

If you’d like to create your own custom chart of spending data you should use the table above to make your selections.

  • Select the year range: Select the start year and the end year you want by selecting the years you want in the two year dropdown boxes.
  • Select spending items: Just select the spending item you want from the dropdown control. Then click a radio button to select the level of government: federal, state, or local. If you select from the < select > you will add another data series to your chart. Up to 5 data series are allowed at once. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart.
  • Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) dollars, billions of real (i.e. year 2017) dollars, or as percent of GDP.
  • Choose chart features: You can select the size of the chart, switch from bar chart to line chart, select color or black and white, stacked or not. You can also blow up the chart to fill the screen with the “full screen” tab control above the chart display.

Download Data

Download Tab-delimited Data

Copy and Paste: To copy and paste data into spreadsheet for analysis, 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.

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Below is a formatted version of the data displayed in the chart.

Total Spending
Fiscal Years 1900 to 2010
YearInflationGDP-US
$ billion nominal
Population-US
million
Total Spending - Total
$ billion nominal
19002.92MW gdpa76.2121.61i
19012.95MW gdpa77.6801.68i
19022.9MW gdpa79.1761.66a
19034.83MW gdpa80.7011.76i
19042.57MW gdpa82.2551.87i
19050.81MW gdpa83.8391.99i
19063.71MW gdpa85.4532.11i
19076.49MW gdpa87.0992.24i
1908-0.18MW gdpa88.7762.38i
1909-1.49MW gdpa90.4862.53i
19102.63MW gdpa92.2292.68i
1911-0.49MW gdpa93.5232.85i
19124.17MW gdpa94.8363.03i
19130.75MW gdpa96.1673.21a
19140.86MW gdpa97.5163.49i
19153.29MW gdpa98.8853.79i
191614.48MW gdpa100.2734.08i
191722.75MW gdpa101.6805.67i
191818MW gdpa103.10716.76i
19192.49MW gdpa104.55422.96i
192013.78MW gdpa106.02211.33i
1921-14.44MW gdpa107.62610.53i
1922-5.79MW gdpa109.2549.30a
19233.15MW gdpa110.9089.63i
1924-1.28MW gdpa112.5869.98i
19251.82MW gdpa114.29010.37i
19260.5MW gdpa116.01910.78i
1927-2.42MW gdpa117.77511.22a
19280.76MW gdpa119.55711.44i
19290.73MW gdpa121.36611.68i
1930-3.3592.2a123.20311.92i
1931-9.6577.4a124.07112.17i
1932-10.2259.5a124.94512.44a
1933-2.6357.2a125.82512.62i
19345.9766.8a126.71212.81a
19352.1874.2a127.60514.78i
19361.3984.8a128.50416.76a
19374.5593a129.41017.22i
1938-2.7187.4a130.32117.68a
1939-1.1693.4a131.24019.05i
19401.36102.9a132.16520.42a
19417.95129.3a133.96624.35i
19429.5166a135.79245.58a
19435.32203.1a137.64392.71i
19442.53224.4a139.519109.95a
19452.58228a141.421118.18i
194611.39227.5a143.34979.71a
194710.86249.6a145.30357.73i
19485.86274.5a147.28355.08a
1949-0.17272.5a149.29162.71i
19501.33299.8a151.32670.33a
19517.66346.9a153.91775.94i
19521.8367.3a156.55299.90a
19531.52391.2a159.232110.05a
19540.72391a161.958111.33a
19552.01430.2a164.731110.72a
19563.93451.2a167.551115.80a
19573.2479.5a170.420125.46a
19582.04485.8a173.337134.73a
19591.34525a176.305145.75a
19601.44545.6a179.323151.29a
19611.04567.7a181.588164.83a
19621.27609a183.881169.50i
19630.99644.4a186.204177.35i
19641.87692a188.555189.11i
19651.93749.3a190.937193.89i
19663.34819.6a193.348216.22i
19672.83865.2a195.790248.07i
19684.56950.8a198.263277.19i
19695.381030a200.766296.09i
19705.021086.1a203.302321.84i
19715.431177.7a205.515354.79i
19724.211290.6a207.752388.25i
19736.331433.8a210.013411.79i
19749.431560a212.299453.23i
19758.81709.8a214.609550.53i
19765.381886.6a216.945620.29i
19776.522118.5a219.307669.94i
19787.812395.1a221.694734.47i
19798.992667.6a224.107809.24i
19808.712856.5a226.546940.24i
19819.823260.6a228.6701073.12i
19825.83366.3a230.8151181.26i
19833.863689.2a232.9791283.26i
19843.814084.3a235.1641353.37i
19853.144386.8a237.3691496.11i
19861.924607.7a239.5951592.63i
19872.754884.6a241.8421663.75i
19883.965282.8a244.1101771.01i
19893.95695.4a246.3991904.47i
19903.896015.1a248.7102083.09i
19913.286205.9a251.8022224.04i
19922.156566.6a254.9332350.85a
19932.526882.1a258.1032426.25a
19942.197331.1a261.3122512.23a
19952.137683.1a264.5612638.93a
19961.788131.4a267.8502726.73a
19971.868662.8a271.1802824.12a
19981.199121.1a274.5522932.27a
19991.419686.6a277.9663056.20a
20002.5510318.2a282.1723246.16a
20012.2210598a285.0823433.75i
20021.510984a287.8043705.44a
20032.0711566.7a290.3263932.78i
20042.8912305.3a293.0464147.67a
20053.3613142.6a295.7534408.03a
20063.2113870.2a298.5934717.19a
20072.6314564.1a301.5804948.16a
20082.0314899a304.3755356.39a
20090.1114448.9a307.0075969.10a
20101.4515141.6a309.3275959.86a

Legend:
a - actual reported
i - interpolated between actual reported values

Data Sources for 1900:
GDP: Samuel H. Williamson, "What Was the U.S. GDP Then?" MeasuringWorth, 2015.
Federal: Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970
State and Local: Hist. Stats of US, Colonial Times to 1970 and 1789 - 1945

Data Sources for 2010:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances

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Spending Data Sources

Spending data is from official government sources.

Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.

Detailed table of spending data sources here.
Medicare breakdown here; Medicaid breakdown here.

Federal spending data begins in 1792.

State and local spending data begins in 1820.

State and local spending data for individual states begins in 1957.

Gross Federal Debt

Debt Now:  $34,594,388,870,175.66
Debt 2/2020:$23,409,959,150,243.63

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Federal Budget for FY25 Released

On March 11, 2024, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2025

Here is how headline budget estimates for the upcoming FY 2024 fiscal year have changed since the release of the FY 2024 budget a year ago in Winter 2023.

Federal Budget Changes for 2024
$ billionEstimate for 2024
in FY2024 Budget
Estimate for 2024
in FY2025 Budget
Change
Federal Outlays$6,371.8$6,940.9 +$569.1
Federal Receipts$4,802.5$5,081.6+$279.1
Federal Deficit$1,569.4$1,859.4+$290.0

You can see line item changes from budget to budget here. You can compare budget estimates with actuals here.

Account level spending estimates through FY 2029 come from the Outlays table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 11, 2024.

Account level budget authority estimates through FY 2029 come from the Budget Authority table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 11, 2024. 

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