Total Government Spending in the United States -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2010 +1yr +5yr
	Federal Gross Spending	$3.5 trillion
	Intergovernmental	$-0.6 trillion
	State Direct Spending	$1.5 trillion
	Local Direct Spending	$1.7 trillion
	Total Spending	$6.0 trillion
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Federal spending is gross spending, total outlays including monies transferred to states and local governments. Actual federal outlays spent directly on programs is (Federal Gross Spending less Intergovernmental). Numbers for state and local spending are “direct spending,” monies spent directly on programs.

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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.

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

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from Bureau of Economic Analysis

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Census Bureau's annual population estimate from 1900 to 1999

2005 Census of Governments - Finance Technical Documentation
Contains Census Bureau spending and revenue codes

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Statistical Abstract of the United States
historical editions of Census Bureau's publication. From 1878.

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Data Sources for 2010:

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
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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.

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