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Multiyear Download of US Government Spending 1997-2017
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 $ bln 2005, pct GDP, and more. 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. |
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 14) | 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 | ||||||
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If you’d like to create your own custom download 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. If you select from the < select > you will add another data series to your chart. Up to 14 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 2000) dollars, or as percent of GDP.
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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.
Below is a formatted version of the data.
| Year | GDP-US $ billion | Total Spending -total $ billion | |
| 1997 | 8332.4 | 2813.40 | a |
| 1998 | 8793.5 | 2923.17 | a |
| 1999 | 9353.5 | 3053.31 | a |
| 2000 | 9951.5 | 3239.91 | a |
| 2001 | 10286.2 | 3428.54 | i |
| 2002 | 10642.3 | 3697.49 | a |
| 2003 | 11142.2 | 3934.54 | i |
| 2004 | 11853.3 | 4131.75 | a |
| 2005 | 12623 | 4397.10 | a |
| 2006 | 13377.2 | 4697.84 | a |
| 2007 | 14028.7 | 4923.25 | a |
| 2008 | 14369.1 | 5336.65 | a |
| 2009 | 13939 | 5942.71 | a |
| 2010 | 14526.5 | 5920.00 | e |
| 2011 | 15094 | 6050.51 | g |
| 2012 | 15601.5 | 6282.00 | g |
| 2013 | 16335 | 6406.85 | g |
| 2014 | 17155.6 | 6666.55 | g |
| 2015 | 18177.8 | 7046.55 | g |
| 2016 | 19261.1 | 7507.71 | g |
| 2017 | 20368.6 | 7847.44 | g |
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