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Create and customize charts of government revenue.
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Google Chart or JpGraph or chart.js
or Add data seriesUse 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 2017, 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. |
View: There are many ways to view the revenue data. The default view is functional. There is a census view that conforms with the revenue categories used by the US Census Bureau in its Statistical Abstract. There is a COFOG view that categorizes revenue using the UN methodology. 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. Or display a chart using Google API or chart.js API. 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. Mandatory: By default the chart shows all spending without regard to mandatory or discretionary. Select Mandatory if you
want to chart only federal Mandatory spending, Discretionary if you want to chart only federal Discretionary spending, Both if you want both federal Mandatory and Discretionary spending broken out using the dropdown control in the table heading. |
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 7) | 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 | ||||||
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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.
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.
Year | Inflation | GDP-US $ billion nominal | Population-US million | Gross Public Debt - Total $ billion nominal | ||
2001 | 2.22 | 10598 | a | 285.082 | 7320.74 | i |
2002 | 1.5 | 10984 | a | 287.804 | 7879.78 | a |
2003 | 2.07 | 11566.7 | a | 290.326 | 8578.76 | i |
2004 | 2.89 | 12305.3 | a | 293.046 | 9331.24 | a |
2005 | 3.36 | 13142.6 | a | 295.753 | 9990.33 | a |
2006 | 3.21 | 13870.2 | a | 298.593 | 10655.37 | a |
2007 | 2.63 | 14564.1 | a | 301.580 | 11359.37 | a |
2008 | 2.03 | 14899 | a | 304.375 | 12550.50 | a |
2009 | 0.11 | 14448.9 | a | 307.007 | 14589.07 | a |
2010 | 1.45 | 15141.6 | a | 309.327 | 16373.00 | a |
2011 | 2.4 | 15647.7 | a | 311.583 | 17687.37 | a |
2012 | 1.72 | 16319.5 | a | 313.878 | 19001.39 | a |
2013 | 1.65 | 16953.8 | a | 316.060 | 19689.42 | a |
2014 | 1.96 | 17804.2 | a | 318.386 | 20774.53 | a |
2015 | 0.91 | 18401.6 | a | 320.739 | 21108.52 | a |
2016 | 0.86 | 18892.6 | a | 323.072 | 22561.98 | a |
2017 | 1.82 | 19692.6 | a | 325.122 | 23273.74 | a |
2018 | 2.49 | 20798.7 | a | 326.838 | 24594.56 | a |
2019 | 1.64 | 21694.3 | a | 328.330 | 25839.83 | a |
2020 | 1.25 | 21647.6 | a | 331.527 | 30169.71 | a |
2021 | 5.34 | 23829 | a | 332.049 | 31722.25 | a |
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Revenue data is from official government sources.
Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.
Detailed table of revenue data sources here.
Federal revenue data begins in 1792.
State and local revenue data begins in 1820.
State and local revenue data for individual states begins in 1957.
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Sources for 2001:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
Sources for 2021:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
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
> data sources for other years
> data update schedule.
On March 11, 2024, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2025.
Here is how headline budget estimates for the upcoming FY 2024 fiscal year have changed since the release of the FY 2024 budget a year ago in Winter 2023.
$ billion | Estimate for 2024 in FY2024 Budget | Estimate for 2024 in FY2025 Budget | Change |
Federal Outlays | $6,371.8 | $6,940.9 | +$569.1 |
Federal Receipts | $4,802.5 | $5,081.6 | +$279.1 |
Federal Deficit | $1,569.4 | $1,859.4 | +$290.0 |
You can see line item changes from budget to budget here. You can compare budget estimates with actuals here.
Account level spending estimates through FY 2029 come from the Outlays table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 11, 2024.
Account level budget authority estimates through FY 2029 come from the Budget Authority table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 11, 2024.
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