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| Revenue Units: By default, government revenue is displayed in billions of dollars. But using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select $ bln 2017, pct GDP and more. Chart Size: By default, the chart is displayed at medium size. But you can use the dropdown control to change the size. 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. |
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Data Sources: Federal revenue from Budget of the United States Government.
For a discussion of the sources of the government revenue data used here read How We Got the Data for usgovernmentspending.com.
Budget Updates: The presidents budget is typically published each year in February.
You can download budget data as a CSV file or directly as a tab-delimited table.
Click button to download CSV file of data in table
Here is the budget table with columns tab-delimited. You can cut and paste directly into a spreadsheet:
You can copy all the text in the textbox by clicking your cursor in the box. Then press Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste the text into your spreadsheet.
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GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
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> data update schedule.
On January 21, 2026 the US Census Bureau released its US national and state population estimates for July 1, 2025. On February 7, 2026 usgovernmentspending.com updated its US and state population data as follows:
usgovernmentspending.com uses population data in computing per capita spending and revenue data. You can see per capita spending data in a chart here, and in a table of spending here.
You can check the data update schedule here.
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