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FY16 Federal Budget Spending Estimates
for Fiscal Years 2015 - 2020

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$ billion nom$ trillion nom$ million nom$ bln 2009$2009 per cap$2009/cap/daypercent GDPpercent GOpct series Units: By default, values are displayed in billions of nominal dollars. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select millions of dollars, percent of GDP, percent of federal total, percent of overall total, dollars per capita of population, and thousand dollars per capita of population. FY 19 Fed BudgetFY 18 Fed BudgetFY 17 Fed BudgetFY 16 Fed BudgetFY 15 Fed BudgetFY 14 Fed BudgetFY 13 Fed BudgetFY 12 Fed BudgetFY 11 Fed BudgetFY 10 Fed BudgetFY 09 Fed BudgetFY 08 Fed BudgetFY 07 Fed BudgetFY 06 Fed BudgetFY 05 Fed BudgetFY 04 Fed BudgetFY 03 Fed BudgetFY 02 Fed BudgetFY 01 Fed BudgetFY 00 Fed BudgetFY 99 Fed BudgetFY 98 Fed BudgetFY 97 Fed BudgetFY 96 Fed BudgetFY 95 Fed BudgetFY 94 Fed BudgetFY 93 Fed BudgetFY 92 Fed BudgetFY 91 Fed BudgetFY 90 Fed BudgetFY 89 Fed BudgetFY 88 Fed BudgetFY 87 Fed BudgetFY 86 Fed Budget US Budget Year: By default, the table displays budgeted and estimated numbers from the most recent US Federal Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at numbers from other US Federal Budgets using this dropdown control. No Pie Chart2015 chart2016 chart2017 chart2018 chart2019 chart2020 chart US Budget Year: By default, the table displays budgeted and estimated numbers from the most recent US Federal Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at numbers from other US Federal Budgets using this dropdown control. full screen
	US Federal Government FY 16 Budget Estimated Outlays in $ billion nominal
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				Estimated Outlays from US Federal FY 16 Budget
Change View: people old functions radical census programs altprog oldprog COFOG Change Data View: The default view of spending data is by function. But you can also view data by program or the UN COFOG classification system.				FY 2015  Outlays	FY 2016  Outlays	FY 2017  Outlays	FY 2018  Outlays	FY 2019  Outlays	FY 2020  Outlays
[+]	Pensions			951.4	1,005.4	1,055.8	1,112.8	1,183.0	1,252.3
[+]	Health Care			1,017.7	1,107.4	1,134.1	1,175.0	1,272.6	1,338.1
[+]	Education			149.0	119.2	130.0	138.9	146.9	152.9
[+]  Charts: Click on a to display a bar of data in a row or column of this table. Click on to display a time-series chart of data in a row. [+] Drill-down: Click on the [+] to drill down to more detailed numbers. For federal spending line items (but not revenue) you can drill down three levels to view about 4,000 items of spending at the “agency code” level.	Defense			813.9	851.8	840.4	822.7	835.4	851.3
[+]	Welfare			383.5	399.4	409.0	407.4	420.0	425.1
[+]	Protection			58.7	58.5	62.3	61.2	62.0	64.3
[+]	Transportation			92.9	98.7	103.8	107.2	108.1	109.8
[+]	General Government			25.0	29.3	27.7	28.0	29.1	30.3
[+]	Other Spending			37.3	46.7	93.4	145.9	112.0	118.5
[+]	Interest			229.2	283.0	361.3	424.2	483.5	543.8
[+]	Balance			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
[+]	Total Spending:  Start chart			3,758.6	3,999.5	4,217.8	4,423.3	4,652.6	4,886.4
[+]	Federal Deficit			582.5	474.3	462.8	478.9	517.7	554.1
[+]	Gross Public Debt			18,627.6	19,333.8	20,095.1	20,870.3	21,640.3	22,413.2
Outlays: Pie Chart: Select a pie chart you wish to display. You can create a pie chart for federal, state and local, and overall spending/revenue. b - budgeted estimate in US FY16 budget e - estimated by usgovernmentspending.com Data Sources for 2015: Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1 Data Sources for 2020: Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1

The table shows overall budgeted federal outlays for major functions for the next five years, as estimated in the historical tables in the current presidential budget.

You can change the budget to be analyzed or drill down to view more detailed spending information.

But. For the “default” and “programs” views, we have extracted data from the Public Budget Database to expand Social Security and Medicare beyond the single line item each gets in Table 3.2. The Public Budget Database starts publishing six years of estimated outlays with the FY10 budget, so this page will only provide a full six years of estimated outlays starting with the FY10 budget.

Notes

Data Sources: Federal spending from Budget of the United States Government.

For a discussion of the sources of the government spending data used here read How We Got the Data for usgovernmentspending.com.

Budget Updates: The president’s budget is typically published each year in February.

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US Federal Government Spending Fiscal Year 2015 - 2020 Estimated Outlays in $ billion nom Year FY 2015 Outlays FY 2016 Outlays FY 2017 Outlays FY 2018 Outlays FY 2019 Outlays FY 2020 Outlays Pensions 951.4 b 1,005.4 b 1,055.8 b 1,112.8 b 1,183.0 b 1,252.3 b Health Care 1,017.7 b 1,107.4 b 1,134.1 b 1,175.0 b 1,272.6 b 1,338.1 b Education 149.0 b 119.2 b 130.0 b 138.9 b 146.9 b 152.9 b Defense 813.9 b 851.8 b 840.4 b 822.7 b 835.4 b 851.3 b Welfare 383.5 b 399.4 b 409.0 b 407.4 b 420.0 b 425.1 b Protection 58.7 b 58.5 b 62.3 b 61.2 b 62.0 b 64.3 b Transportation 92.9 b 98.7 b 103.8 b 107.2 b 108.1 b 109.8 b General Government 25.0 b 29.3 b 27.7 b 28.0 b 29.1 b 30.3 b Other Spending 37.3 b 46.7 b 93.4 b 145.9 b 112.0 b 118.5 b Interest 229.2 b 283.0 b 361.3 b 424.2 b 483.5 b 543.8 b Balance 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Spending 3,758.6 b 3,999.5 b 4,217.8 b 4,423.3 b 4,652.6 b 4,886.4 b Federal Deficit 582.5 b 474.3 b 462.8 b 478.9 b 517.7 b 554.1 b Gross Public Debt 18,627.6 e 19,333.8 e 20,095.1 e 20,870.3 e 21,640.3 e 22,413.2 e Legend: b - budgeted estimate in US FY16 budget e - estimated by usgovernmentspending.com Data Sources for 2015: Federal: <a href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=BUDGET&browsePath=Fiscal+Year+2016&searchPath=Fiscal+Year+2016&leafLevelBrowse=false&isCollapsed=false&isOpen=true&packageid=BUDGET-2016-TAB&ycord=822 Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1 Data Sources for 2020: Federal: <a href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=BUDGET&browsePath=Fiscal+Year+2016&searchPath=Fiscal+Year+2016&leafLevelBrowse=false&isCollapsed=false&isOpen=true&packageid=BUDGET-2016-TAB&ycord=822 Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1 source: usgovernmentspending.com

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Spending data is from official government sources.

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• All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.

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