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What is the Federal Government Revenue?

In FY 2024, federal government revenue was $4.92 trillion according to the Office of Management and Budget. Budgeted revenue for FY 2025 is $5.48 trillion.

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This page shows the current trends in US Federal revenue. There are also charts on US Federal revenue history.

Recent US Federal Revenue

Recent Federal Revenue

Chart R.01f: Recent Federal Revenue

Federal Revenue was increasing strongly, year on year, in the mid 2000s from $2.1 trillion to $2.6 trillion in 2007. But federal revenues cratered in the Great Recession, down to a little over $2 trillion in 2009. In the subsequent recovery federal revenues increased slowly in 2010 thru 2012, but has increased more strongly after 2013, flatlining at $3.2 trillion in 2015 and 2016. Federal revenues increased rapidly in the early 2020s.

Federal revenue for 2024 was $4.92 trillion.

Recent Federal Revenue as Pct GDP

Chart R.02f: Recent Federal Revenue as Pct GDP

Viewed from a GDP perspective, federal revenue was increasing steadily as a percent of GDP from 2005 to reach 18 percent in 2007. In the Great Recession federal revenues plunged down to 14.6 percent GDP in 2009 and then remained at about 15 percent GDP through 2012, but then increased up to 17.8 percent of GDP in 2015. In 2016 and after federal revenues declined down to 15.8 percent of GDP by 2019 with a jolt up to nearly 19 percent GDP in 2022.

Federal revenue for 2024 was 16.7 percent GDP.

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Federal Revenue in 20th Century

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Federal revenue began the 20th century at about 3 percent of GDP per year. It jerked above 13 percent as a result of World War I and then declined in the 1920s below 5 percent of GDP in the 1920s. Federal revenue started to increase steadily in the 1930s reaching 7 to 8 percent of GDP just before World War II.

Federal revenue exploded during World War II to nearly 24 percent of GDP, and then declined to about 15 percent in the late 1940s.

In the Korean War of the early 1950s federal revenue increased to 20 percent of GDP. From the mid-1950s to the early 1990s federal revenues oscillated at about 17 to 18 percent.

In the 1990s federal revenue increased steadily to about 20 percent of GDP It collapsed to 16 percent of GDP in the recession of 2000-01 and 15 percent of GDP in the Great Recession of 2007-09.

After the Great Recession federal revenue recovered almost to 18 percent of GDP.

US Federal Revenue since the Founding

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Federal revenue in the first half of the 19th century varied typically between 2 and 3 percent of GDP except in wartime. In the 1840s, after the national debt had been pretty well paid off, revenues declined to 2 percent of GDP. In the Civil War, federal revenue doubled to 7 percent of GDP.

After the Civil War revenue gradually declined to about 2.5 percent of GDP at the outbreak of World War I. Federal revenue in World War I peaked at 7 percent of GDP and declined below 5 percent in the 1920s. Federal revenue reached 7 percent of GDP in the 1930s before rocketing to 24 percent of GDP at the end of World War II.

From the end of World War II to the mid 1990s federal revenue fluctuated between 17 and 18 percent of GDP, peaking at 20 percent of GDP in 2000. The Great Recession of 2007-09 caused a significant decline in revenue to 15 percent of GDP but revenue has since recovered to 18 percent of GDP.

Viewed in the long term, federal revenue seems to have remained roughly constant at 17 to 18 percent GDP since World War II.

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According to the latest forecast from the Congressional Budget Office, federal revenue will grow from 16.5 percent of GDP in 2019 to 19.5 percent of GDP by 2049.

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State and Local Finances for 2023

On September 11, 2025 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2023 using the new Census Bureau State and Local Government Finances summaries for FY 2023 released on July 31, 2025.  (See also Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances). The release includes state and local spending for the United States as a whole and the 50 individual states and the District of Columbia.

State and local spending and revenue for FY2023 are now actual historical spending as reported by the Census Bureau. In addition, the Census Bureau published updated tables for 2021 and 2022.

We have updated the "guesstimated" state and local finances for FY2024-30 as indicated in our "guesstimate" blog entries.

We have also updated data for individual local government units with data for 2023. 

Beginning in 2022 the Census Bureau has changed the value for Line 56 Direct Expenditure and Line 7 General Revenue from own sources, as follows:

We have decided to end our publication of non-insurance trust cash and security holdings.

However, to keep the time series at usgovernmentspending.com consistent, we have decided to add insurance-trust values back into Line 56 and Line 7 values. 

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