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For FY 2018, the three biggest federal programs are health care, pensions, and defense.
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. Fiscal Year: The default year displayed is the current US government fiscal year. But you can select any 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 year to get close, then select the year you want. You can increase or decrease the year using the yr text links in the table heading. | ||
GDP: $576.4 bln GO: $0.0 bln | State and Local Spending: By default, state and local spending are displayed separately. But you can select state'n local and display state and local spending combined. US or State: By default, the table shows values for governments in the United States overall. But for years after 1991 you can select individual states by selecting the state dropdown control in the table heading or the text link right above it. 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. State of Georgia State and Local Government Spending | < OH GA MI > Pop: 10.5 million |
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View: people old function 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. | Fed | Gov. Xfer | State | Local | Total | chart | |||
[+] | Pensions | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.4 | 1.0 | 7.3 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Health Care | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.8 | 4.3 | 16.1 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Education | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.8 | 18.8 | 27.6 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] Charts: Click on a ![]() Click on ![]() [+] 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 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Welfare | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 3.7 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Protection | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 5.1 | 6.7 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Transportation | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 7.1 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | General Government | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 3.9 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Other Spending | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Interest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.4 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Balance | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Total Spending: Start chart | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36.8 | 48.0 | 84.8 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Federal Deficit | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Gross Public Debt | 0.0 | 0.0 | 13.2 | 42.8 | 56.0 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Other Borrowing | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ![]() ![]() | ||
[+] | Agency/GSE Debt | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ![]() ![]() | ||
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Spending: 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. g - 'guesstimated' projection by usgovernmentspending.com f - Data Sources: State GDP Information Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1 State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances 'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years | Switch to revenue |
The table shows overall government expenditures for the specified fiscal year. Spending totals are aggregated for each major government function.
For explanation of Gov. Xfer column see blog on “All About Intergovernmental Transfers.”
For explanation of Other Borrowing row see blog on “The Feds Borrow More than the ‘Deficit.’”
All federal outlays prior to 2018, state spending prior to 2017 and local spending prior to 2016 are actual. More recent spending, including future years out to 2023, are budgeted, estimated, or guesstimated.
Federal expenditure for 1962 through 2023 is based on federal subfunction data published in the presidents Budget of the United States Government. State and local expenditureboth for the United States as a whole and for individual statesfor 1992 through 2011 is derived from spending, revenue, and debt numbers in the US Census Bureaus annual survey of State and Local Government Finances.
State and local expenditure for the United States as a whole between 1971 and 1991 is obtained from Statistical Abstract of the United States. State and local expenditure for individual states between 1957 and 1991 is obtained from an MS Access database at a US Census Bureau site: Govt_Finances.zip.
Federal expenditure between 1792 and 1961 and state and local expenditure for the United States as a whole between 1902 and 1971 is obtained from the US Census Bureaus Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970.
You can use controls on the table to change from display of nationwide spending data to individual states. You can change the year or to drill down to view more detailed spending information. You can also view the spending data as percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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