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Total Budgeted* Government Spending
Expenditure GDP – CHARTS – Deficit Debt

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Expenditure / Pie Chart


Click image for briefing on Total Expenditure.
For Expenditure as %GDP from 1950-2010 click here.

Deficit / Debt


Click image for briefing on Federal Deficit.
For deficit as %GDP from 1950-2010 click here.

Click image for briefing on Government Debt.
For debt as %GDP from 1950-2010 click here.

GDP / Spending by Function


Click image for chart of Gross Domestic Product.
For Real GDP from 1950-2010 click here.
Total Spending by Function
< -yrValues in $ billion
(Click year for details)
+yr >
20072008200920102011
Total Spending4,9255,3566,1026,5326,891
Pensions8038499349871,020
Health Care8508931,0051,0901,180
Education8108649121,0421,095
Defense654730795896929
Welfare415486589750670
click function name
above for chart


There’s much, much more:

  • Create CHARTS of government spending history here.
  • Look at TABLES of spending breakdown year-by-year for federal, state, and local here.
  • DOWNLOAD data for a single year here.
  • Take a TOUR of the website here.


What is the spending data; where is it from?

  • Federal spending data begins in 1792.
  • State and local spending data begins in 1902.
  • Spending data is from official government sources.
    Federal data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
    All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.
  • Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.

 


“The point is to show all spending by governments in the US: federal, state, and local.”


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Data Sources for 2009:

GDP: Measuring Worth - US GDP
Federal: Budget of the US Government
State: State and Local Gov. Finances
> data sources for other years

Headline

Now Updated with Federal Budget FY11 Numbers


usgovernmentspending.com is now updated with the numbers from the Federal Budget for FY 2011. This includes:

  1. Actual spending and revenue for FY 2009
  2. Updated spending and revenue for FY 2010
  3. Budgeted spending and revenue for FY 2011 thru FY 2014
  4. Updated GDP forecast through 2014
  5. Update Debt forecast through 2014

Note: usgovernmentspending.com always shows total spending, including federal, state, and local.


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Federal Budget Update: FY 2011
On February 1, 2011, the president released the federal budget for fiscal year 2011. The numbers on...

Revised Release of State and Local Data for 2007
On December 24, 2009, usgovernmentspending.com updated its database with the revised data release fo...

Data Update Schedule
Here's a table that tells you when data was last updated, and when to expect fresh updates from usgo...

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Christopher Chantrill.

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