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What is the Total US Government Revenue?
In FY 2026, total US government revenue, federal, state, and local, is “guesstimated” to be $11.17 trillion, with federal $5.87 trillion; state $3.22 trillion; local $2.09 trillion.
US Government Revenue Totals in percent GDP
Total government revenue in the United States is the sum of federal, state, and local government revenue.
Total government revenue includes:
Federal Receipts
plus State government Direct Revenue
plus Local government Direct Revenue.
Total Government Revenue | |||
| Federal Direct Revenue | 17% GDP |  | |
| State Direct Revenue | 10% GDP | | |
| Local Direct Revenue | 7% GDP | | |
| Total Revenue | 34% GDP | | |
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Revenue Key:
Federal receipts: actual, as reported by the Office of Management and Budget.
State revenue: actual, as reported by the US Bureau of the Census.
Local revenue: actual, as reported by the US Bureau of the Census.
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Revenue Data Sources
Revenue data is from official government sources.
- Federal revenue data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
- All other revenue data comes from the US Census Bureau.
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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Data Sources for 2014:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
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> data update schedule.
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US GDP for 2025 Released
On March 15, 2026 usgovernmentspending.com updated its GDP series with the latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis,
- Click on link.
- Click on "Underlying Detail Tables."
- Click on "view data in XLS or other formats."
- Click on "Section 1 Domestic Product and Income" link
- Save .xlsx file.
GDP, real and nominal, looks like this:
- US GDP source from 1790 to 1928 is calendar GDP from measuringworth.com.
- US GDP source from 1929 to 2025 is calendar GDP from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, under "Supplemental Information and Data"
On January 21, 2026 the US Census Bureau released its US national and state population estimates for July 1, 2025. On February 7, 2026 usgovernmentspending.com updated its US and state popula ...
On January 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual report on ...
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