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Time Series Chart of Government Revenue

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To create your first chart, try the Chart Wizard.

You can COPY or CUSTOMIZE the chart.

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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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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 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 revenue. But you can select revenue for individual states by selecting the state dropdown control in the table heading.
State, Local: By default, you can chart state revenue or local revenue 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.
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.

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 5)Sub-categoryFed Gov. 
Xfer 
State Local Total   
 
Data Series: Select a revenue 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.
 
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If you’d like to create your own custom chart of revenue 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 revenue items: Just select the revenue 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 2005) 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.

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Download Data File

 Click button to download CSV file of dataset in chart
 

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.

Gross Public Debt
Fiscal Years 1950 to 2015
YearGDP-US
$ billion
Gross Public Debt -total
pct GDP
1950293.795.66a
1951339.383.23i
1952358.380.71a
1953379.379.03a
1954380.481.43a
1955414.776.83a
1956437.473.52a
1957461.170.55a
1958467.272.31a
1959506.669.40a
1960526.468.48a
1961544.867.49a
1962585.765.52a
1963617.864.00a
1964663.661.53a
1965719.158.66a
1966787.755.29a
1967832.454.55a
1968909.853.84a
1969984.450.72a
19701038.350.51a
19711126.850.34a
19721237.949.27a
19731382.347.33a
19741499.546.01a
19751637.746.52a
19761824.647.68a
19772030.147.55a
19782293.846.11a
19792562.244.24a
19802788.144.66a
19813126.843.46a
19823253.247.38a
19833534.651.65a
19843930.952.65a
19854217.556.58a
19864460.162.32a
19874736.464.70a
19885100.465.80a
19895482.166.89a
19905800.570.10a
19915992.175.34a
19926342.378.48a
19936667.480.47a
19947085.280.70a
19957414.781.41a
19967838.581.03a
19978332.479.10a
19988793.576.89a
19999353.574.57a
20009951.571.15a
200110286.271.17i
200210642.374.04a
200311142.276.99i
200411853.378.72a
20051262379.14a
200613377.279.65a
200714028.780.94a
200814369.187.26a
200913939104.45a
201014526.5112.99e
201115094116.78g
201215601.5122.78g
201316335124.82g
201417155.6125.30g
201518177.8124.59g

Legend:
a - actual reported
i - interpolated between actual reported values
e - out-year estimate in US fy13 budget
g - 'guesstimated' projection by usgovernmentspending.com
b - budgeted estimate in US fy13 budget

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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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