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Download Raw Spending Data Series 1792-2017

You can download any of the raw data series used to compile the government spending data in usgovernmentspending.com. You select the data series you want and then copy-paste the tab delimited data from a textbox on this page into your spreadsheet.

Warning: The raw data series typically do not extend the whole length of US history. Check out charts if you want full-length data series.

Download Instructions:

Prepare a suite of data for download by making a selection from one of the dropdown menus below. You can select:

  1. A group of functionally related spending data series
  2. An individual spending data series
You can also remove individual data series that you don’t want.

Select Functional Data Series Group: Select a group of data series to download (you can add individual data series later):

Add Individual Data Series: Select Spending Data Series to add to download (you can add more later):

Change Data Units: You can download data in raw format (i.e., in the units used in the database for each item, or in $ billion, $ million, or percent of GDP.

raw
$ billion
$ million
percent GDP

Select Fiscal Year: You can select the budget for which you want to download estimated federal spending.

Copy and Paste: When you have created the dataset you want then 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.

Here is a formatted version of the data you have selected.You can remove a data series by selecting “out” in the dropdown for each data series.

YearGDP(000) Total federal outlays(E00) Total state/local outlays
1962585.71068210
1963617.81113160
1964663.61185280
1965719.11182280
1966787.71345320
1967832.41574640
1968909.81781340
1969984.41836400
19701038.31956490
19711126.82101720
19721237.92306810
19731382.32457070
19741499.52693590
19751637.73323320
19761824.63717920
19772030.14092180
19782293.84587460
19792562.25040280
19802788.15909410
19813126.86782410
19823253.27457430
19833534.68083640
19843930.98518050
19854217.59463440
19864460.19903820
19874736.410040200
19885100.410644200
19895482.111437400
19905800.512529900
19915992.113242300
19926342.313815301146850000
19936667.414093901210100000
19947085.214617501260640000
19957414.715157401347760000
19967838.515604801393710000
19978332.416011201456890000
19988793.516524601525760000
19999353.517018401622100000
20009951.517889501742910000
200110286.218628501891900000
200210642.320108902047150000
200311142.221599002164230000
200411853.322928402262020000
20051262324719602363700000
200613377.226550502495760000
200714028.727286902659140000
200814369.129825402832090000
20091393935176802961790000
201014526.534562102963620000
201115079.636030600
201215812.537955500
201316752.438033600
201417782.238831000
201518804.140598700
201619790.543288400
201720368.645317200

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US GDP for 2011 Updated

On April 25, 2012, usgovernmentspending.com updated its GDP series with the latest data from measuringworth.com, including nominal GDP for calendar 2011 of $15.094 trillion and a real GDP in 2005 dollars for calendar 2011 of $13.315 trillion.

Usgovernmentspending.com uses measuringworth.com as its GDP source because the data series for nominal and real GDP go back to 1790.

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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

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

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.
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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