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Units: By default, values are displayed in billions of 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. full screen
	US Federal Government Outlays Budgeted vs. Actual
-5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2012 in $ billion +1yr +5yr

		Estimates for FY 2012 Federal Outlays in US Budgets
Change View: people old default radical census programs COFOG		FY 2008 Budget	FY 2009 Budget	FY 2010 Budget	FY 2011 Budget	FY 2012 Budget	FY 2013 Budget	Actual 2012
[+]	Pensions	837.3	812.0	800.8	814.9	805.6	819.7	811.7
[+]	Health Care	840.7	806.4	894.5	878.5	866.1	846.1	818.5
[+]	Education	101.6	103.9	138.6	131.6	121.1	153.1	103.3
[+] 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	677.1	699.0	807.1	863.9	925.2	902.2	849.6
[+]	Welfare	288.9	294.7	394.5	438.5	431.5	451.9	419.0
[+]	Protection	47.3	48.6	54.6	59.2	58.7	62.0	56.3
[+]	Transportation	75.6	66.0	86.5	98.2	104.9	102.6	93.0
[+]	General Government	23.1	23.1	26.7	29.8	32.6	33.6	30.0
[+]	Other Spending	69.8	68.3	80.8	97.4	141.5	199.6	135.2
[+]	Interest	284.9	299.9	348.8	342.9	241.6	224.8	220.4
[+]	Balance	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
[+]	Total Spending	3,246.3	3,221.8	3,632.8	3,754.9	3,728.7	3,795.6	3,537.1
[+]	Federal Deficit	-61.0	-48.1	557.4	828.5	1,101.2	1,327.0	1,087.0
[+]	Gross Public Debt	11,487.3	11,868.1	16,565.7	15,484.3	16,654.3	16,350.9	16,050.9
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. budgeted estimated actual Data Sources for 2012: GDP: Measuring Worth - US GDP Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1						Switch to revenue

Starting with the 1986 budget, the Office of Management and Budget provides six years of estimated spending for each function and subfunction extending from the fiscal year in which the federal budget is published to five years into the future. For instance, the 1986 budget historical tables included estimates for FY85, FY86, FY87, FY88, FY89, and FY90. Starting with FY90, OMB will have made six estimates of spending for each year before the actual spending for a fiscal year is reported.

The table shows overall budgeted federal expenditures for major functions for the specified fiscal year, as estimated in the historical tables in several presidential budgets. You can compare these estimates with the actual expenditures for the fiscal year as reported in the budget historical tables after the specified fiscal year is over.

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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 Outlays Budgeted vs. Actual Fiscal Year 2012 Amounts in $ billion Estimates for FY 2012 Federal Outlays in US Budgets FY 2008 Budget FY 2009 Budget FY 2010 Budget FY 2011 Budget FY 2012 Budget FY 2013 Budget Actual 2012 Pensions 837.3 b 812.0 b 800.8 b 814.9 b 805.6 b 819.7 b 811.7 a Health Care 840.7 b 806.4 b 894.5 b 878.5 b 866.1 b 846.1 b 818.5 a Education 101.6 b 103.9 b 138.6 b 131.6 b 121.1 b 153.1 b 103.3 a Defense 677.1 b 699.0 b 807.1 b 863.9 b 925.2 b 902.2 b 849.6 a Welfare 288.9 b 294.7 b 394.5 b 438.5 b 431.5 b 451.9 b 419.0 a Protection 47.3 b 48.6 b 54.6 b 59.2 b 58.7 b 62.0 b 56.3 a Transportation 75.6 b 66.0 b 86.5 b 98.2 b 104.9 b 102.6 b 93.0 a General Government 23.1 b 23.1 b 26.7 b 29.8 b 32.6 b 33.6 b 30.0 a Other Spending 69.8 b 68.3 b 80.8 b 97.4 b 141.5 b 199.6 b 135.2 a Interest 284.9 b 299.9 b 348.8 b 342.9 b 241.6 b 224.8 b 220.4 a Balance 0.0 b 0.0 b 0.0 b -0.0 b 0.0 b 0.0 b 0.0 a Total Spending 3,246.3 b 3,221.8 b 3,632.8 b 3,754.9 b 3,728.7 b 3,795.6 b 3,537.1 a Federal Deficit -61.0 b -48.1 b 557.4 b 828.5 b 1,101.2 b 1,327.0 b 1,087.0 a Gross Public Debt 11,487.3 e 11,868.1 e 16,565.7 e 15,484.3 e 16,654.3 e 16,350.9 e 16,050.9 a Legend: b - estimated by US budget e - estimated by usgovernmentspending.com a - actual reported source: usgovernmentspending.com

Sources

U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1913-2011
US Federal Income tax rate Schedules

New FDSYS federal budget page
from US Government Printing Office

Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays, and Balances of the United States Government FY 2010
Annual US Treasury Report on Spending and Revenue

US Government - Historical Debt Outstanding
US Treasury's measure of US National Debt

Measuring Worth - GDP Series for US and UK
includes GDP and chained GDP for US; GDP and chained GDP for UK

Gross Domestic Product by State
from Bureau of Economic Analysis

US Population Estimates from 1900
Census Bureau's annual population estimate from 1900 to 1999

2005 Census of Governments - Finance Technical Documentation
Contains Census Bureau spending and revenue codes

JpGraph Chart Library
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Statistical Abstract of the United States
historical editions of Census Bureau's publication. From 1878.

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Data Sources for 2012:

GDP: Measuring Worth - US GDP
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
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State and Local Spending for Individual States from 1957 to 1991

On June 15, 2013 usgovernmentspending.com loaded state and local spending and revenue for individual states going back to 1957.

Up to now, we have provided state and local finances from the present back to 1992 using data provided by the Census Bureau here. But the Census Bureau also has data on individual states going back to 1957 here in file Govt_Finances.zip.

There is a break in data series at 1991-92. The Census Bureau prior to 1992 has fewer line items than the post-1992 data. There is also a break at 1976-77. The Census Bureau prior to 1977 has fewer line items than the post-1977 data. Typically, the data in reports for earlier years is reported in an aggregate item that sums up the detailed items in the more recent data reports.

These breaks in data have produced "notches" in some of the data series, and we have done some "juggle-ology" to produce smoother data series, as detailed below.

One problem in the pre-1992 data is that Medicaid is not broken out of welfare. Up to now, for pre 1992 years we have estimated Medicaid expenses for all states combined based upon the assumption that the intergovernmental transfers to health care all apply to Medicaid and can be subtracted from the gross welfare expenditures to produce welfare net of Medicaid. For each state, therefore, we have broken down pre-1992 gross welfare expenditures between net welfare and Medicaid based upon the overall ratio for all states between net welfare (gross welfare less health care intergovernmental transfer) and Medicaid (health care intergovernmental transfer).

Another problem that the pre-1992 data seems to include judicial and legal system expenditures under "General Control" in the "General Government" category. Data since 1992 has separate data series for judicial and legal system expenditures and we showed it under "Protection" in the default data view. We have therefore created a new "default" view with judicial and legal system expenditures included under "General Government." The old default view -- now labeled "old" -- has the judicial and legal system expenditures included under "Protection." Typically, any links you have saved previous to June 15, 2013 will categorize data under the old default view. New links will use the new default view, unless you select the old default view.

For 1958-60 combined state-and-local data only is reported in the Census Bureau data. So we have estimated state data and local data by interpolation from 1957 and 1961.