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What is Local Spending on Interest?

In FY 2023, local government outlays on interest were $58 billion.

Estimated spending on interest for FY 2024 is $57 billion.

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This page shows the current trends in US Local outlays on interest.

Recent US Local Spending on Interest

Recent Local Interest Spending

Chart S.71l: Recent Local Interest Spending

Local spending on interest was increasing in the late 2000s reaching $60 billion in 2010. For most of the 2010s local spending on interest kept below $65 billion. Local interest spending for FY2023 was estimated at $58 billion.

Recent Local Int Spend as Pct GDP

Chart S.72l: Recent Local Int Spend as Pct GDP

Viewed from a GDP perspective, local spending on interest in the late 2000s increased from 0.36 percent GDP to 0.41 percent GDP in 2009. In the 2010s local spending on interest has steadily declined. Local spending on interest for FY2023 was estimated at 0.21 percent GDP.

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US Local Spending on Interest Since 1900

Local Interest since 1900

Chart S.73l: Local Interest since 1900

Local government spending on interest at the start of the 20th century was 0.26 percent of GDP and increased steadily for the next 30 years, hitting 0.52 percent GDP in 1929. In the Great Depression local spending on interest began a sharp increase, hitting 1.09 percent GDP in 1933. For the rest of the 1930s and through World War II local spending on interest declined sharply, passing 0.51 percent GDP in 1940 and bottoming out at 0.11 percent GDP in 1951.

Starting in 1952 local spending on interest began a sustained increase, hitting 0.21 percent GDP in 1960, 0.3 percent GDP in 1974, 0.3 percent GDP in 1983 and peaking at 0.48 percent GDP in 1987.

In the 1990s and 2000s, local spending on interest declined, down to 0.4 percent GDP in 2000.

In the 2010s local spending on interest has steadily declined, down to 0.31 percent GDP in 2020.

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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

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