To copy the chart, right-click your mouse on the chart, and copy the chart into the Clipboard or save the chart on your computer. The data series (and associated GDP or chained GDP) is/are displayed in a table here.

Use the table below to change the chart

Click on Help Topics dropdown control for help in customizing your chart. Remember, you can display a maximum of five data series at once.

Chart Range

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 click the checkbox for the spending item (up to 5 allowed at once) you want to display and view the chart. Click the checkbox to unselect spending items you don’t want.
Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) dollars, billions of real (i.e. year 2000) dollars, or as percent of GDP.

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Copy and Paste: Here is the dataset you have just charted. If you’d like the data 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 Welfare-total 1992 6239.9 220.1 1993 6575.5 234.9 1994 6961.3 234.3 1995 7325.8 247.2 1996 7694.1 247.4 1997 8182.4 249.4 1998 8627.9 244.2 1999 9125.3 253.9 2000 9709.8 267.7 2001 10057.9 290.2 2002 10377.4 320.3 2003 10808.6 390.6 2004 11499.9 380.3 2005 12237.9 404.0 2006 13015.5 411.4 2007 13667.5 423.1 2008 14311.5 447.9 2009 15027.0 467.7 2010 15792.0 480.6

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

Welfare Spending Chart
Fiscal Years 1992 to 2010
Amounts in $ billion
Year	GDP-US	Welfare-total
1992	6239.9	220.1
1993	6575.5	234.9
1994	6961.3	234.3
1995	7325.8	247.2
1996	7694.1	247.4
1997	8182.4	249.4
1998	8627.9	244.2
1999	9125.3	253.9
2000	9709.8	267.7
2001	10057.9	290.2
2002	10377.4	320.3
2003	10808.6	390.6
2004	11499.9	380.3
2005	12237.9	404.0
2006	13015.5	411.4
2007	13667.5	423.1
2008	14311.5	447.9
2009	15027.0	467.7
2010	15792.0	480.6

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Education

“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State

Mutual Aid

In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society

Democratic Capitalism

Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

Government Expenditure

The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

	size:	Fed	Gov. Xfer	State	Local	Total
[+] Pensions
[+] Health Care
[+] Education
[+] Defense
[–] Welfare
—— Family and children
—— Unemployment
—— Housing
—— Social exclusion n.e.c.
—— R&D Social protection
—— Social protection n.e.c.
[+] Protection
[+] Transportation
[+] General Government
[+] Other Spending
[+] Interest
[+] Balance
[+] Total Spending
Spending key: — using federal budget