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Recent US Federal Deficit Numbers
| Obama Deficits | Bush Deficits |
| FY 2012: $1,327 billion | FY 2009: $1,413 billion |
| FY 2011: $1,300 billion | FY 2008: $459 billion |
| FY 2010: $1,293 billion | FY 2007: $161 billion |
The federal deficit is the amount each year by which federal outlays in the federal budget exceed federal receipts. But the gross federal debt increases each year by substantially more than the amount of the deficit each year. That is because a substantial amount of federal borrowing is not counted in the budget. See here.
Deficit Charts
Recent US Federal Deficits
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The two charts show above show recent and budgeted deficits for the US federal government. On the left is a chart of the deficit in current dollars. On the right is a chart of the deficit as a percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Note:
* Federal revenue after 2010 is budgeted.
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What is the spending data; where is it from?
- Federal spending data begins in 1792.
- State and local spending data begins in 1902.
- Spending data is from official government sources.
Federal data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.
- Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.
Federal data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.
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Data Sources for :
GDP: Measuring Worth - US GDP
Federal: Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970
State: Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970
> data sources for other years
> data update schedule.
Federal Budget FY 13 Released
On February 13, 2012, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the historical tables in the FY13 federal budget. Actual revenue for FY 2011 and estimated revenue through FY 2017 come from Tables 2.1, 2.4, and 2.5. Actual spending for FY 2011 and estimated spending at the subfunction level through FY 2017 comes from Table 3.2. Federal debt estimates come from Table 7.1 and GDP estimates come from Table 10.1.
You can see you each line item changes from budget to budget here. You can compare budget estimates with actuals here.
Account level spending estimates through FY 2017 come from the outlays table in the Public Budget Database and will be updated in the next few days.
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