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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. |
| Linear/Log: By default, the data series are displayed as linear charts. But you can also select a log chart. Linear charts show constant amount changes as a straight line; Log charts show constant rates of change as a straight line. 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. US Budget Year: By default, the chart displays budgeted and estimated federal revenue in the current US Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at previous budgeted numbers using this dropdown control. |
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-category | Fed | 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. | X | ||||||
| All Categories | |||||||
| * If you add data series at same government level, this item will be shown as Remaining Revenue. | |||||||
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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Below is a formatted version of the data displayed in the chart.
| Year | GDP-US $ billion nominal | Population-US million | Total Direct Revenue -total $ billion nominal | |
| 1950 | 293.7 | 151.326 | 66.68 | a |
| 1951 | 339.3 | 153.917 | 82.53 | i |
| 1952 | 358.3 | 156.552 | 100.25 | a |
| 1953 | 379.3 | 159.232 | 104.78 | a |
| 1954 | 380.4 | 161.958 | 108.26 | a |
| 1955 | 414.7 | 164.731 | 106.41 | a |
| 1956 | 437.4 | 167.551 | 119.65 | a |
| 1957 | 461.1 | 170.420 | 129.15 | a |
| 1958 | 467.2 | 173.337 | 130.40 | a |
| 1959 | 506.6 | 176.305 | 133.06 | a |
| 1960 | 526.4 | 179.323 | 153.10 | a |
| 1961 | 544.8 | 181.588 | 158.74 | a |
| 1962 | 585.7 | 183.881 | 161.29 | a |
| 1963 | 617.8 | 186.204 | 172.31 | a |
| 1964 | 663.6 | 188.555 | 184.07 | a |
| 1965 | 719.1 | 190.937 | 193.57 | a |
| 1966 | 787.7 | 193.348 | 215.33 | a |
| 1967 | 832.4 | 195.790 | 240.04 | a |
| 1968 | 909.8 | 198.263 | 253.37 | a |
| 1969 | 984.4 | 200.766 | 299.88 | a |
| 1970 | 1038.3 | 203.302 | 321.06 | a |
| 1971 | 1126.8 | 205.515 | 327.41 | a |
| 1972 | 1237.9 | 207.752 | 365.78 | a |
| 1973 | 1382.3 | 210.013 | 409.20 | a |
| 1974 | 1499.5 | 212.299 | 459.31 | a |
| 1975 | 1637.7 | 214.609 | 493.65 | a |
| 1976 | 1824.6 | 216.945 | 547.15 | a |
| 1977 | 2030.1 | 219.307 | 630.73 | a |
| 1978 | 2293.8 | 221.694 | 701.58 | a |
| 1979 | 2562.2 | 224.107 | 796.48 | a |
| 1980 | 2788.1 | 226.546 | 885.80 | a |
| 1981 | 3126.8 | 228.670 | 1015.71 | a |
| 1982 | 3253.2 | 230.815 | 1076.72 | a |
| 1983 | 3534.6 | 232.979 | 1104.02 | a |
| 1984 | 3930.9 | 235.164 | 1221.50 | a |
| 1985 | 4217.5 | 237.369 | 1347.39 | a |
| 1986 | 4460.1 | 239.595 | 1439.30 | a |
| 1987 | 4736.4 | 241.842 | 1581.88 | a |
| 1988 | 5100.4 | 244.110 | 1676.15 | a |
| 1989 | 5482.1 | 246.399 | 1822.45 | i |
| 1990 | 5800.5 | 248.710 | 1927.72 | a |
| 1991 | 5992.1 | 251.802 | 1981.75 | a |
| 1992 | 6342.3 | 254.933 | 2097.67 | a |
| 1993 | 6667.4 | 258.103 | 2226.50 | a |
| 1994 | 7085.2 | 261.312 | 2374.57 | a |
| 1995 | 7414.7 | 264.561 | 2540.94 | a |
| 1996 | 7838.5 | 267.850 | 2731.75 | a |
| 1997 | 8332.4 | 271.180 | 2949.39 | a |
| 1998 | 8793.5 | 274.552 | 3187.57 | a |
| 1999 | 9353.5 | 277.966 | 3350.94 | a |
| 2000 | 9951.5 | 282.172 | 3675.57 | a |
| 2001 | 10286.2 | 285.082 | 3527.75 | i |
| 2002 | 10642.3 | 287.804 | 3299.19 | a |
| 2003 | 11142.2 | 290.326 | 3456.93 | i |
| 2004 | 11853.3 | 293.046 | 3891.15 | a |
| 2005 | 12623 | 295.507 | 4243.60 | a |
| 2006 | 13377.2 | 298.109 | 4696.05 | a |
| 2007 | 14028.7 | 300.733 | 5170.63 | a |
| 2008 | 14369.1 | 303.380 | 4667.42 | a |
| 2009 | 13939 | 306.051 | 3662.00 | a |
| 2010 | 14508.2 | 308.746 | 4710.36 | a |
| 2011 | 14958.6 | 311.592 | 5093.96 | e |
| 2012 | 15547.4 | 314.123 | 5132.53 | g |
| 2013 | 16335 | 316.847 | 5565.67 | g |
| 2014 | 17155.6 | 319.594 | 5951.17 | g |
| 2015 | 18177.8 | 322.366 | 6312.30 | g |
| 2016 | 19261.1 | 325.010 | 6711.45 | g |
| 2017 | 20368.6 | 327.676 | 7151.84 | g |
Legend: Data Sources for 1950: Data Sources for 2017: | ||||
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
Open source graph creating Library for PHP.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
historical editions of Census Bureau's publication. From 1878.
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Data Sources for 1950_2017:
Sources for 1950:
See State GDP Information
Federal: Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970
State and Local: Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970
Sources for 2017:
See State GDP Information
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
“Guesstimated” by projecting the latest change in reported revenue forward to future years
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> data update schedule.
Medicare and Social Security Details
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