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Time Series Chart of UK Public Spending

If you want you can copy the chart (right-click your cursor on the chart) and include it in your own content. Below the chart is a table where you can change the chart, and below the table are tables of the data series including nominal or chained GDP.

Use the table below to change the chart

If you’d like to create your own custom chart of spending 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 spending items: Just click the checkbox for the spending item (up to 5 allowed at once) you want to display and view the chart. Click the checkbox to unselect spending items you don’t want.
• Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) pounds sterling, billions of real (i.e. year 2003) pounds, or as percent of GDP.

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Copy and Paste: Here is the dataset you have just charted. The table also includes nominal or chained GDP for each year charted. If you’d like the data 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.

Year GDP Total Spending-total 1900 1.885 0.3 1901 1.893 0.3 1902 1.906 0.3 1903 1.881 0.3 1904 1.881 0.2 1905 1.949 0.2 1906 2.033 0.2 1907 2.113 0.2 1908 2.011 0.2 1909 2.052 0.3 1910 2.14 0.3 1911 2.227 0.3 1912 2.327 0.3 1913 2.42 0.3 1914 2.451 0.3 1915 2.943 1.0 1916 3.434 1.2 1917 4.276 1.5 1918 5.108 2.4 1919 5.484 1.9 1920 5.975 1.6 1921 4.907 1.4 1922 4.458 1.2 1923 4.254 1.0 1924 4.366 1.0 1925 4.508 1.1 1926 4.349 1.1 1927 4.599 1.1 1928 4.599 1.1 1929 4.692 1.1 1930 4.615 1.1 1931 4.316 1.2 1932 4.223 1.1 1933 4.298 1.1 1934 4.517 1.1 1935 4.72 1.1 1936 4.987 1.2 1937 5.334 1.3 1938 5.502 1.6 1939 5.918 2.1 1940 7.183 4.0 1941 8.654 5.3 1942 9.482 5.9 1943 10.093 6.4 1944 10.18 6.6 1945 9.908 5.9 1946 9.968 4.5 1947 10.772 4.0 1948 11.988 4.2 1949 12.732 4.4 1950 13.285 4.5 1951 14.793 5.6 1952 16.023 6.2 1953 17.147 6.6 1954 18.148 6.6 1955 19.505 6.8 1956 20.966 7.4 1957 22.111 7.6 1958 23.05 8.1 1959 24.347 8.6 1960 25.974 9.1 1961 27.404 10.3 1962 28.691 11.0 1963 30.366 11.7 1964 33.162 12.7 1965 35.802 14.1 1966 38.099 15.3 1967 40.191 17.5 1968 43.53 19.1 1969 46.883 19.8 1970 51.523 21.6 1971 57.469 24.2 1972 64.342 26.4 1973 74.02 30.5 1974 83.793 39.2 1975 105.864 51.5 1976 125.203 58.5 1977 145.663 61.9 1978 167.905 71.9 1979 197.438 85.2 1980 230.8 103.9 1981 253.154 116.1 1982 277.198 128.0 1983 302.973 132.7 1984 324.633 140.5 1985 355.269 150.9 1986 381.782 158.6 1987 421.559 164.6 1988 470.748 173.6 1989 517.075 179.9 1990 560.887 200.9 1991 589.739 218.2 1992 614.776 236.2 1993 645.5 260.6 1994 684.067 276.5 1995 723.08 298.9 1996 768.905 309.4 1997 815.881 318.3 1998 865.71 324.9 1999 911.945 328.1 2000 958.931 339.3 2001 1003.297 361.8 2002 1055.793 385.3 2003 1118.245 415.2 2004 1184.296 451.4 2005 1233.976 487.8 2006 1299.622 502.2 2007 1338.611 543.3 2008 1365.383 579.2 2009 1399.517 614.2 2010 1438.004 647.1 2011 1481.144 684.1

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Below is a formatted version of the dataset displayed in the chart. Included is a column of nominal or chained GDP for each year charted.

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“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State

In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society

Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America