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Estimated vs. Actual Federal Spending
for Fiscal Year 2012 from Federal Budgets

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GDP: $15,601.5 billion(1)	US Federal Government Spending Budgeted vs. Actual	Pop: 314.1 million
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				Estimates for FY 2012 Federal Spending in US Budgets(2)
Change View: people default radical census COFOG				FY 2008 Budget	FY 2009 Budget	FY 2010 Budget	FY 2011 Budget	FY 2012 Budget	FY 2013 Budget	Actual 2012
[+]	Pensions			837.3	812.0	800.8	814.9	805.6	819.7	n/a
[+]	Health Care			840.7	806.4	894.5	878.5	866.1	846.1	n/a
[+]	Education			101.6	103.9	138.6	131.6	121.1	153.1	n/a
[+]  Charts: Click on a to display a bar of data in a row or column of this table. Click on to display a time-series chart of data in a row. [+] Drill-down: Click on the [+] to drill down to more detailed numbers. For federal spending line items (but not revenue) you can drill down three levels to view about 4,000 items of spending at the “agency code” level.	Defense			677.1	699.0	807.1	863.9	925.2	902.2	n/a
[+]	Welfare			288.9	294.7	394.5	438.5	431.5	451.9	n/a
[+]	Protection			47.3	48.6	54.6	59.2	58.7	62.0	n/a
[+]	Transportation			75.6	66.0	86.5	98.2	104.9	102.6	n/a
[+]	General Government			23.1	23.1	26.7	29.8	32.6	33.6	n/a
[+]	Other Spending			69.8	68.3	80.8	97.4	141.5	199.6	n/a
[+]	Interest			284.9	299.9	348.8	342.9	241.6	224.8	n/a
[+]	Balance			0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.0	0.0	0.0	n/a
[+]	Total Spending			3,246.3	3,221.8	3,632.8	3,754.9	3,728.7	3,795.6	n/a
[+]	Federal Deficit			-61.0	-48.1	557.4	828.5	1,101.2	1,327.0	n/a
[+]	Gross Public Debt			11,487.3	11,868.1	16,565.7	15,484.3	16,654.3	16,350.9	n/a
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Data Sources: Federal spending from Budget of the United States Government.

For a discussion of the sources of the government spending data used here read How We Got the Data for usgovernmentspending.com.

Budget Updates: The president’s budget is typically published each year in February.

Sources

U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1913-2011
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New FDSYS federal budget page
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Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays, and Balances of the United States Government FY 2010
Annual US Treasury Report on Spending and Revenue

US Government - Historical Debt Outstanding
US Treasury's measure of US National Debt

Measuring Worth - GDP Series for US and UK
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Gross Domestic Product by State
from Bureau of Economic Analysis

US Population Estimates from 1900
Census Bureau's annual population estimate from 1900 to 1999

2005 Census of Governments - Finance Technical Documentation
Contains Census Bureau spending and revenue codes

JpGraph Chart Library
Open source graph creating Library for PHP.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
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