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 2005 dollars, percent of GDP, 2005 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.

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.

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.

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 2005) 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 “fullsize” tab control above the chart display.

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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.

Year GDP-US $ billion nominal Population-US million Total Spending-total $ billion nominal 2009 14417.9 306.772 5974.22 a 2010 14958.3 309.347 5966.14 a 2011 15533.8 311.722 6159.29 a 2012 16244.6 314.112 6144.70 a 2013 16797.5 316.498 6100.65 g 2014 17332.3 318.857 6146.25 g 2015 18219.4 321.369 6583.57 g 2016 19180.6 323.996 6850.24 g 2017 20199.4 326.626 7130.46 g 2018 21216.3 329.256 7457.04 g 2019 22196.1 331.884 7931.22 g Legend: a - actual reported g - 'guesstimated' projection by usgovernmentspending.com e - estimated by usgovernmentspending.com b - budgeted estimate in US FY16 budget Data Sources for 2009: GDP, GO: See <a href="http://usgovernmentspending.blogspot.com/2014/04/gdp-go-sources.html">GDP, GO Sources</a> Federal: <a href="http://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</a> State and Local: <a href="http://www.census.gov/govs/local/">State and Local Gov. Finances</a> Data Sources for 2019: GDP, GO: See <a href="http://usgovernmentspending.blogspot.com/2014/04/gdp-go-sources.html">GDP, GO Sources</a> Federal: <a href="http://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</a> State and Local: <a href="http://www.census.gov/govs/local/">State and Local Gov. Finances</a> “<a href="http://usgovernmentspending.blogspot.com/2011/03/change-to-guesstimated-state-and-local.html">Guesstimated</a>” by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

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

Total Spending
Fiscal Years 2009 to 2019
Year	GDP-US $ billion nominal	Population-US million	Total Spending -total $ billion nominal
2009	14417.9	306.772	5974.22	a
2010	14958.3	309.347	5966.14	a
2011	15533.8	311.722	6159.29	a
2012	16244.6	314.112	6144.70	a
2013	16797.5	316.498	6100.65	g
2014	17332.3	318.857	6146.25	g
2015	18219.4	321.369	6583.57	g
2016	19180.6	323.996	6850.24	g
2017	20199.4	326.626	7130.46	g
2018	21216.3	329.256	7457.04	g
2019	22196.1	331.884	7931.22	g
Legend: a - actual reported g - 'guesstimated' projection by usgovernmentspending.com e - estimated by usgovernmentspending.com b - budgeted estimate in US FY16 budget Data Sources for 2009: GDP, GO: See GDP, GO Sources Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1 State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances Data Sources for 2019: GDP, GO: See 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

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Spending Data Sources

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 US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.

Detailed table of spending data sources here.

Federal spending data begins in 1792.

State and local spending data begins in 1890.

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

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