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Pie chart showing breakdown of major government functions. You can also drill down to view more spending detail by clicking the [+] control on each function line.

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Units: By default, values are displayed in billions of nominal dollars. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select millions of dollars, percent of GDP, percent of federal total, percent of overall total, dollars per capita of population, and thousand dollars per capita of population. Fiscal Year: The default year displayed is the current US government fiscal year. But you can select any 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 year to get close, then select the year you want. You can increase or decrease the year using the “yr” text links in the table heading. US Budget Year: By default, the table displays budgeted and estimated numbers from the most recent US Federal Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at numbers from other US Federal Budgets using this dropdown control. full screen
GDP: $18,219.4 bln GO: $32,178.5 bln	State and Local Spending: By default, state and local spending are displayed separately. But you can select state'n local and display state and local spending combined. US or State: By default, the table shows values for governments in the United States overall. But for years after 1991 you can select individual states by selecting the state dropdown control in the table heading or the text link right above it. Pie Chart: Select a pie chart you wish to display. You can create a pie chart for federal, state and local, and overall spending/revenue. United States Federal State and Local Government Spending	US CA > Pop: 321.4 million
-5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2015 in $ billion +1yr +4yr

View: people old default radical census programs altprog COFOG		Fed	Gov. Xfer	State	Local	Total	chart
[+]	Pensions	969.7	0.0	226.2	49.8	1,245.7
[+]	Health Care	1,044.5	-358.1	514.5	149.2	1,350.1
[+]	Education	130.7	-69.3	299.9	642.3	1,003.5
[+] 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	839.9	0.0	0.7	-0.0	840.6
[+]	Welfare	385.8	-113.2	144.2	86.7	503.4
[+]	Protection	34.1	-5.1	70.8	168.1	267.8
[+]	Transportation	97.8	-67.0	128.1	141.5	300.4
[+]	General Government	49.7	-4.1	56.0	77.6	179.2
[+]	Other Spending	97.0	-16.3	94.0	354.1	528.9
[+]	Interest	251.9	0.0	51.0	65.0	367.9
[+]	Balance	0.0	0.0	-4.0	0.0	-4.0
[+]	Total Spending: Start chart	3,901.0	-633.1	1,581.2	1,734.4	6,583.6
[+]	Federal Deficit	563.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	563.6
[+]	Gross Public Debt	18,713.5	0.0	1,216.7	1,914.5	21,844.6
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Spending: Pie Chart: Select a pie chart you wish to display. You can create a pie chart for federal, state and local, and overall spending/revenue. b - estimated by US budget g - 'guesstimated' projection by usgovernmentspending.com e - estimated by usgovernmentspending.com Data Sources: GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1 State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances 'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years					Switch to revenue

The table shows overall government expenditures for the specified fiscal year. Spending totals are aggregated for each major government function.

For the United States the table shows spending for all levels of government—federal spending, state spending, and local spending.
For individual states the table shows expenditures for state and local governments only.

All federal outlays prior to 2015 and state and local finances prior to 2011 are actual. More recent spending, including future years out to 2020, are budgeted, estimated, or guesstimated.

Federal expenditure for 1962 through 2020 is based on federal subfunction data published in the president’s Budget of the United States Government. State and local expenditure—both for the United States as a whole and for individual states—for 1992 through 2011 is derived from spending, revenue, and debt numbers in the US Census Bureau’s annual survey of State and Local Government Finances.

State and local expenditure for the United States as a whole between 1971 and 1991 is obtained from Statistical Abstract of the United States. State and local expenditure for individual states between 1957 and 1991 is obtained from an MS Access database at a US Census Bureau site: Govt_Finances.zip.

Federal expenditure between 1792 and 1961 and state and local expenditure for the United States as a whole between 1902 and 1971 is obtained from the US Census Bureau’s Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970.

You can use controls on the table to change from display of nationwide spending data to individual states. You can change the year or to drill down to view more detailed spending information. You can also view the spending data as percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Click the button at the right of each line of the table to display a bar chart of government spending. Click a button at the base of each column for a bar chart or pie chart. You can right click on the chart image to copy and paste it into your own content. Click the image to close the chart display.

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United States Federal, State and Local Government Spending Fiscal Year 2015 GDP: $18,219.4 bln GO: $32,178.5 bln Amounts in $ billion Fed Gov. Xfer State Local Total Pensions 969.7 b 0.0 226.2 g 49.8 g 1,245.7 g Health Care 1,044.5 b -358.1 e 514.5 g 149.2 g 1,350.1 g Education 130.7 b -69.3 e 299.9 g 642.3 g 1,003.5 g Defense 839.9 b 0.0 0.7 g -0.0 g 840.6 g Welfare 385.8 b -113.2 e 144.2 g 86.7 g 503.4 g Protection 34.1 b -5.1 e 70.8 g 168.1 g 267.8 g Transportation 97.8 b -67.0 e 128.1 g 141.5 g 300.4 g General Government 49.7 b -4.1 e 56.0 g 77.6 g 179.2 g Other Spending 97.0 b -16.3 e 94.0 g 354.1 g 528.9 g Interest 251.9 b 0.0 51.0 g 65.0 g 367.9 g Balance 0.0 b 0.0 e -4.0 g 0.0 g -4.0 g Total Spending 3,901.0 b -633.1 e 1,581.2 g 1,734.4 g 6,583.6 g Federal Deficit 563.6 b 0.0 0.0 0.0 563.6 b Gross Public Debt 18,713.5 e 0.0 1,216.7 g 1,914.5 g 21,844.6 g Legend: b - estimated by US budget g - 'guesstimated' projection by usgovernmentspending.com e - estimated by usgovernmentspending.com Data Sources: GDP, GO: usgovernmentspending.blogspot.com/2014/04/gdp-go-sources.html GDP, GO Sources Federal: www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=BUDGET&browsePath=Fiscal+Year+2015&searchPath=Fiscal+Year+2015&leafLevelBrowse=false&isCollapsed=false&isOpen=true&packageid=BUDGET-2015-TAB&ycord=822 Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1 State and Local: www.census.gov/govs/local/ State and Local Gov. Finances usgovernmentspending.blogspot.com/2011/03/change-to-guesstimated-state-and-local.html 'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years source: usgovernmentspending.com

Notes

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

Intergovernmental Transfers: The column labeled “Gov. Xfer” in the table represents monies paid by the federal government as grants and aid to state and local governments. These are “intergovernmental transfers.”

For a discussion read All About Intergovernmental Transfers.

Federal Spending by Agency Code: If you drill down below the federal subfunction level you can see federal spending split up into about 4,000 agency code accounts.

For a discussion read Federal Spending at the Agency Code Level

Actual vs. Budgeted: Government spending data in usgovernmentspending.com includes historical spending and also future spending in three categories: budgeted, estimated, and guesstimated. Records of recent spending are more detailed than historical records of earlier times.

For a table of data sources see Government Spending Data: Sources.

Government Spending Updates: The next update to federal spending will be made when the president’s budget for FY 2014 is published, probably during February 2013. The last update to federal spending was made in February 2012. The last update to state and local spending was made in December 2012.

The update schedule is published on Government Spending Update Schedule.

Sources

U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1913-2011
US Federal Income tax rate Schedules

New FDSYS federal budget page
from US Government Printing Office

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
includes GDP and chained GDP for US; GDP and chained GDP for UK

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
historical editions of Census Bureau's publication. From 1878.

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Data Sources for 2015:

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US, State Population Update for 2014

On December 24, 2014 the US Census Bureau released its national and state population estimates for 2014. On December 24, 2014 usgovernmentspending.com updated its US and state population data as follows:

We updated 2014 population data for US and states using data from US Census Bureau Population Estimates: vintage 2014 in file NST-EST2014-01.xls.
We projected 2014 thru 2019 for US and states assuming population rate change for 2013-24.
We updated 2015 thru 2019 for US using data from US Census Bureau 2012 National Population Projections in file NP2014-T1.xls.

usgovernmentspending.com uses population data in computing per capita spending and revenue data. You can see per capita spending data in a chart here, and in a table of spending here.

You can check the data update schedule here.