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Government Spending Chart
Create and customize your own charts of government spending.
Use the controls below to CUSTOMIZE chart or CHANGE the data series
Hover mouse over dropdown controls for help. Remember, you can display a maximum of five data series at once.
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| Spending Units: By default, government spending is displayed in billions of dollars. But using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select billions of 2012 dollars, percent of GDP, 2012 dollars per capita, percent of federal spending, or percent of total spending. Chart Title: You can create a title for your chart. Use the text field to enter a title and click the button to the right of the text field. US or State: By default, the chart shows overall United States government spending. But you can select spending for individual states by selecting the state dropdown control in the table heading. State, Local: By default, you can chart state spending or local spending by clicking a radio button in the selection table. But you can chart state-and-local combined by selecting state n local in the state/local dropdown control in the table heading. |
View: There are many ways to view the spending data. The default view is functional. There is a census view that conforms with the spending categories used by the US Census Bureau in its Statistical Abstract. There is a COFOG view that categorizes spending using the UN methodology. Linear/Log: By default, the data series are displayed as linear charts. But you can also select a log chart. Linear charts show constant amount changes as a straight line; Log charts show constant rates of change as a straight line. Line/Bar: By default, the data series are displayed as line charts. But you can also select a bar chart. Data Stack: By default, the data series are “stacked” when displayed on the chart. But you can change the setting to “un stack” the data series. Chart Size: By default, the chart is displayed at medium size. But you can use the dropdown control to change the size. Color: By default charts are displayed with color data lines and fill. You can change this to grayscale if you want. US Budget Year: By default, the chart displays budgeted and estimated federal spending in the current US Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at previous budgeted numbers using this dropdown control. Mandatory: By default the chart shows all spending without regard to mandatory or discretionary. Select Mandatory if you
want to chart only federal Mandatory spending, Discretionary if you want to chart only federal Discretionary spending, Both if you want both federal Mandatory and Discretionary spending broken out using the dropdown control in the table heading. |
Data Range Start Year: You can select any start 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 start year to get close, then select the start year you want. End Year: You can select any end 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 an end year to get close, then select the end year you want. |
| Category (max 7) | Sub-category | Fed | Gov. Xfer | State | Local | Total | |
| Data Series: Select a spending series you want to chart from a dropdown on the left. If you select on the bottom dropdown you will add a data series (up to a maximum of five). The right-hand dropdown allows you to replace a data series with a more narrowly focused series. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart. | X | ||||||
| ? Education: K-12, college, training | X | ||||||
| ? Education: K-12, college, training | X | ||||||
| ? Select data series to add to chart | |||||||
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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 select the spending item you want from the dropdown control. Then click a radio button to select the level of government: federal, state, or local. If you select from the < select > you will add another data series to your chart. Up to 5 data series are allowed at once. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart.
- Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) dollars, billions of real (i.e. year 2012) dollars, or as percent of GDP.
- Choose chart features: You can select the size of the chart, switch from bar chart to line chart, select color or black and white, stacked or not. You can also blow up the chart to fill the screen with the “fullsize” tab control above the chart display.
Download Data
Download Tab-delimited Data
Copy and Paste: To copy and paste data into spreadsheet 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.
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Below is a formatted version of the data displayed in the chart.
| Year | GDP-US $ trillion nominal | Population-US million | Education - Federal $ trillion nominal | Education - State $ trillion nominal | Education - Local $ trillion nominal | |||
| 2004 | 12.2137 | 293.046 | 0.10 | a | 0.18 | a | 0.48 | a |
| 2005 | 13.0366 | 295.753 | 0.11 | a | 0.19 | a | 0.51 | a |
| 2006 | 13.8146 | 298.593 | 0.13 | a | 0.20 | a | 0.54 | a |
| 2007 | 14.4519 | 301.580 | 0.10 | a | 0.21 | a | 0.57 | a |
| 2008 | 14.7128 | 304.375 | 0.10 | a | 0.23 | a | 0.61 | a |
| 2009 | 14.4489 | 307.007 | 0.09 | a | 0.24 | a | 0.62 | a |
| 2010 | 14.9921 | 309.322 | 0.14 | a | 0.25 | a | 0.62 | a |
| 2011 | 15.5426 | 311.557 | 0.11 | a | 0.26 | a | 0.61 | a |
| 2012 | 16.197 | 313.831 | 0.10 | a | 0.27 | a | 0.61 | a |
| 2013 | 16.7849 | 315.994 | 0.09 | a | 0.28 | a | 0.61 | a |
| 2014 | 17.5273 | 318.301 | 0.10 | a | 0.28 | a | 0.63 | a |
| 2015 | 18.2248 | 320.635 | 0.13 | a | 0.29 | a | 0.66 | a |
| 2016 | 18.715 | 322.941 | 0.12 | a | 0.30 | a | 0.68 | a |
| 2017 | 19.5194 | 324.986 | 0.16 | a | 0.31 | a | 0.71 | a |
| 2018 | 20.5802 | 326.687 | 0.11 | a | 0.32 | a | 0.74 | a |
| 2019 | 21.4277 | 328.240 | 0.15 | a | 0.33 | g | 0.76 | g |
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Spending Data Sources
Spending data is from official government sources.
- Federal spending 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 1820.
State and local spending data for individual states begins in 1957.
Gross Federal Debt
| Debt Now: | $27,203,384,382,939.29 | Debt 2/28: | $23,409,959,150,243.63 |
usgovernmentspending.com now shows the new numbers for total FY 2020 total outlays and receipts on its Estimate vs. Actual page. The Monthly Treasury Statement includes "Table 4: Receipts of the United States Government, September 2019 and Other Periods." This table of receipts by source is used for usgovernmentspending.com to post details of federal receipt actuals for FY 2020. This FTS report on FY 20 actuals is a problem for usgovernmentspending.com because this site uses Historical Table 3.2--Outlays by Function and Subfunction from the Budget of the United States as its basic source for federal subfunction outlays. But the Monthly Treasury Statement only includes "Table 9. Summary of Receipts by Source, and Outlays by Function of the U.S. Government, September 2020 and Other Periods". Subfunction amounts don't get reported until the FY22 budget in February 2021. Until then usgovernmentspending.com estimates actual outlays by "subfunction" for FY 2020 by factoring subfunction budgeted amounts for FY20 by the ratio between relevant actual and budgeted "function" amounts where actual outlays by subfunction cannot be gleaned from the Monthly Treasury Statement. On top of that, the unbudgeted spending to fight the COVID-19 virus is tucked into various places where you'd least expect it. We have tried to unearth these monies in the FTS and translate them into subfunction amounts. Final detailed FY 2020 actuals will not appear on usgovernmentspending.com until the FY 2022 federal budget is published in February 2021 with the actual outlays for FY 2020 in Historical Table 3.2--Outlays by Function and Subfunction. Budget NewsU.S. budget deficit Historical Tables | The White House Trump to Begin Releasing Fiscal 2020 Budget Plan on March 11 > archive BlogState and Local Finances for FY 2018 CBO Long Term Budget Outlook for 2020 State FY20 Taxes Update > blog Spend linksus numbers • us budget • custom chart • deficit/gdp • spend/gdp • debt/gdp • us gdp • us real gdp • state gdp • breakdown • federal • state • local • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • california • texas |
