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Government Spending Chart

Create and customize your own charts of government spending.

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Use the controls below to CUSTOMIZE chart or CHANGE the data series

Hover mouse over dropdown controls for help. Remember, you can display a maximum of five data series at once.

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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 2017 dollars, percent of GDP, 2017 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. Or display a chart using Google API or chart.js API.
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.
Mandatory: By default the chart shows all spending without regard to mandatory or discretionary. Select Mandatory if you want to chart only federal Mandatory spending, Discretionary if you want to chart only federal Discretionary spending, Both if you want both federal Mandatory and Discretionary spending broken out using the dropdown control in the table heading.

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.
Category (max 7)Sub-categoryFed Gov. 
Xfer 
State Local Total   
 
Data Series: Select a spending series you want to chart from a dropdown on the left. If you select on the bottom dropdown you will add a data series (up to a maximum of five). The right-hand dropdown allows you to replace a data series with a more narrowly focused series. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart.
? Total Spending: Federal: total outlays including grants to state and local. State and local: direct spending on programs *
  ? Select data series to add to chart
 All Categories

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 2017) 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 “full screen” tab control above the chart display.

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Download Tab-delimited Data

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.

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

Total Spending
Fiscal Years 1903 to 2010
YearInflationGDP-US
$ billion nominal
Population-US
million
Total Spending - Federal
percent GDP
19034.83MW gdpa80.7012.25i
19042.57MW gdpa82.2552.39i
19050.81MW gdpa83.8392.24i
19063.71MW gdpa85.4532.18i
19076.49MW gdpa87.0992.10i
1908-0.18MW gdpa88.7762.48i
1909-1.49MW gdpa90.4862.46i
19102.63MW gdpa92.2292.49i
1911-0.49MW gdpa93.5232.54i
19124.17MW gdpa94.8362.45i
19130.75MW gdpa96.1672.45a
19140.86MW gdpa97.5162.73i
19153.29MW gdpa98.8852.69i
191614.48MW gdpa100.2732.08i
191722.75MW gdpa101.6803.83i
191818MW gdpa103.10717.03i
19192.49MW gdpa104.55423.84i
192013.78MW gdpa106.0227.60i
1921-14.44MW gdpa107.6267.42i
1922-5.79MW gdpa109.2545.08a
19233.15MW gdpa110.9084.31i
1924-1.28MW gdpa112.5864.18i
19251.82MW gdpa114.2903.96i
19260.5MW gdpa116.0193.66i
1927-2.42MW gdpa117.7753.66a
19280.76MW gdpa119.5573.73i
19290.73MW gdpa121.3663.64i
1930-3.3592.2a123.2034.29i
1931-9.6577.4a124.0715.31i
1932-10.2259.5a124.9457.17a
1933-2.6357.2a125.8258.92i
19345.9766.8a126.7128.89a
19352.1874.2a127.60510.18i
19361.3984.8a128.50410.81a
19374.5593a129.4109.47i
1938-2.7187.4a130.3219.67a
1939-1.1693.4a131.2409.91i
19401.36102.9a132.1659.78a
19417.95129.3a133.96610.95i
19429.5166a135.79221.42a
19435.32203.1a137.64340.86i
19442.53224.4a139.51944.80a
19452.58228a141.42146.88i
194611.39227.5a143.34929.25a
194710.86249.6a145.30316.59i
19485.86274.5a147.28312.97a
1949-0.17272.5a149.29114.75i
19501.33299.8a151.32614.94a
19517.66346.9a153.91714.11a
19521.8367.3a156.55219.48a
19531.52391.2a159.23220.45a
19540.72391a161.95819.87a
19552.01430.2a164.73117.07a
19563.93451.2a167.55116.84a
19573.2479.5a170.42017.06a
19582.04485.8a173.33717.71a
19591.34525a176.30517.82a
19601.44545.6a179.32317.83a
19611.04567.7a181.58818.47a
19621.27609a183.88117.54a
19630.99644.4a186.20417.27a
19641.87692a188.55517.13a
19651.93749.3a190.93715.78a
19663.34819.6a193.34816.41a
19672.83865.2a195.79018.20a
19684.56950.8a198.26318.74a
19695.381030a200.76617.83a
19705.021086.1a203.30218.01a
19715.431177.7a205.51517.85a
19724.211290.6a207.75217.87a
19736.331433.8a210.01317.14a
19749.431560a212.29917.27a
19758.81709.8a214.60919.44a
19765.381886.6a216.94519.71a
19776.522118.5a219.30719.32a
19787.812395.1a221.69419.15a
19798.992667.6a224.10718.89a
19808.712856.5a226.54620.69a
19819.823260.6a228.67020.80a
19825.83366.3a230.81522.15a
19833.863689.2a232.97921.91a
19843.814084.3a235.16420.86a
19853.144386.8a237.36921.57a
19861.924607.7a239.59521.49a
19872.754884.6a241.84220.55a
19883.965282.8a244.11020.15a
19893.95695.4a246.39920.08a
19903.896015.1a248.71020.83a
19913.286205.9a251.80221.34a
19922.156566.6a254.93321.04a
19932.526882.1a258.10320.48a
19942.197331.1a261.31219.94a
19952.137683.1a264.56119.73a
19961.788131.4a267.85019.19a
19971.868662.8a271.18018.48a
19981.199121.1a274.55218.12a
19991.419686.6a277.96617.57a
20002.5510318.2a282.17217.34a
20012.2210598a285.08217.58a
20021.510984a287.80418.31a
20032.0711566.7a290.32618.67a
20042.8912305.3a293.04618.63a
20053.3613142.6a295.75318.81a
20063.2113870.2a298.59319.14a
20072.6314564.1a301.58018.74a
20082.0314899a304.37520.02a
20090.1114448.9a307.00724.35a
20101.4515141.6a309.32722.83a

Legend:
i - interpolated between actual reported values
a - actual reported

Data Sources for 1903:
GDP: Samuel H. Williamson, "What Was the U.S. GDP Then?" MeasuringWorth, 2015.
Federal: Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970
State and Local: Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970

Data Sources for 2010:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances

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Spending data is from official government sources.

Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.

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Federal spending data begins in 1792.

State and local spending data begins in 1820.

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

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Debt Now:  $34,573,199,545,841.43
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Federal Budget for FY25 Released

On March 11, 2024, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2025

Here is how headline budget estimates for the upcoming FY 2024 fiscal year have changed since the release of the FY 2024 budget a year ago in Winter 2023.

Federal Budget Changes for 2024
$ billionEstimate for 2024
in FY2024 Budget
Estimate for 2024
in FY2025 Budget
Change
Federal Outlays$6,371.8$6,940.9 +$569.1
Federal Receipts$4,802.5$5,081.6+$279.1
Federal Deficit$1,569.4$1,859.4+$290.0

You can see line item changes from budget to budget here. You can compare budget estimates with actuals here.

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