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Highlights of US Federal Budget for FY11
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Budget FY11

Details, using numbers from FY11 US budget. Includes state and local “guesstimates.”

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Units: By default, values are displayed in billions of 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 in the current US Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at previous budgeted numbers using this dropdown control. full screen
GDP: $0.0 million(1)	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 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: 316.8 million
-5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2013 in $ billion +1yr +5yr

View: people default radical census programs COFOG		Fed (2)	Gov. Xfer(3)	State (3)	Local (3)	Total	charts
[+]	Pensions	856.0	0.0	190.5	43.5	1,089.9
[+]	Health Care	950.8	-365.4	497.6	133.8	1,216.7
[+]	Education	135.2	-104.2	270.4	517.0	818.4
[+] 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	856.5	0.0	1.2	0.0	857.7
[+]	Welfare	408.5	-54.3	179.7	98.7	632.7
[+]	Protection	57.2	0.0	90.8	188.6	336.6
[+]	Transportation	96.2	-60.8	111.4	143.7	290.5
[+]	General Government	29.9	-0.8	31.6	54.5	115.3
[+]	Other Spending	89.2	-49.1	86.0	354.7	480.8
[+]	Interest	435.9	0.0	49.7	64.9	550.5
[+]	Balance	-0.0	-0.0	0.0	-0.0	-0.0
[+]	Total Spending	3,915.4	-634.6	1,508.9	1,599.3	6,389.0
[+]	Federal Deficit	727.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	727.3
[+]	Gross Public Debt	16,699.2	0.0	1,151.6	1,845.5	19,696.3
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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. budgeted guesstimated⁴ estimated Data Sources: GDP: Fed. Budget: Hist. Table 10.1 Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2 and 7.1 State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances “Guesstimated” by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

The table shows overall budgeted federal expenditures from the president’s budget for major functions for the specified fiscal year. Also included are estimates of state and local spending.

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.

Notes

Data Sources: Federal spending from Budget of the United States Government. State and local spending from US Census Bureau: State and Local Government Finances.

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

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

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 2013:

GDP: Fed. Budget: Hist. Table 10.1
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2 and 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
“Guesstimated” by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

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Medicare and Social Security Details

On May 10, 2013, usgovernmentspending.com was updated to provide details of Social Security -- OASI and DI numbers -- and Medicare -- broken down by Part A, Part B, and Part D.

Go here to get details of the Social Security changes on usgovernmentspending.com.

Go here to get details of the Medicare changes on usgovernmentspending.com