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Multiyear Download of UK Government Spending
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| Year | Inflation | GDP-UK £ billion nominal | Population-UK million | Total Spending -central -central £ billion nominal | |
| 1951 | 8.55 | MW gdp | 50.287 | 0.00 | |
| 1952 | 7.11 | MW gdp | 50.429 | 0.00 | |
| 1953 | 1.83 | MW gdp | 50.593 | 0.00 | |
| 1954 | 1.13 | MW gdp | 50.765 | 0.00 | |
| 1955 | 4.91 | MW gdp | 50.946 | 0.00 | |
| 1956 | 7.05 | MW gdp | 51.184 | 0.00 | |
| 1957 | 4.08 | MW gdp | 51.430 | 0.00 | |
| 1958 | 3.7 | MW gdp | 51.653 | 0.00 | |
| 1959 | 0.76 | MW gdp | 51.956 | 0.00 | |
| 1960 | 1.11 | MW gdp | 52.373 | 0.00 | |
| 1961 | 3.88 | MW gdp | 52.807 | 0.00 | |
| 1962 | 3.65 | MW gdp | 53.292 | 0.00 | |
| 1963 | 1.55 | MW gdp | 53.625 | 0.00 | |
| 1964 | 3.77 | MW gdp | 53.991 | 0.00 | |
| 1965 | 6.05 | MW gdp | 54.350 | 0.00 | |
| 1966 | 5.42 | MW gdp | 54.643 | 0.00 | |
| 1967 | 3.03 | MW gdp | 54.959 | 0.00 | |
| 1968 | 4.44 | MW gdp | 55.214 | 0.00 | |
| 1969 | 6.75 | MW gdp | 55.461 | 0.00 | |
| 1970 | 9.92 | MW gdp | 55.632 | 0.00 | |
| 1971 | 8.57 | MW gdp | 55.928 | 0.00 | |
| 1972 | 7.9 | MW gdp | 56.097 | 0.00 | |
| 1973 | 9.39 | MW gdp | 56.223 | 0.00 | |
| 1974 | 15.8 | MW gdp | 56.236 | 0.00 | |
| 1975 | 25.7 | MW gdp | 56.226 | 0.00 | |
| 1976 | 16.02 | MW gdp | 56.216 | 0.00 | |
| 1977 | 14.17 | MW gdp | 56.190 | 0.00 | |
| 1978 | 12.31 | MW gdp | 56.178 | 0.00 | |
| 1979 | 14.98 | MW gdp | 56.240 | 0.00 | |
| 1980 | 19.69 | MW gdp | 56.330 | 0.00 | |
| 1981 | 12.31 | MW gdp | 56.358 | 0.00 | |
| 1982 | 8.16 | MW gdp | 56.291 | 0.00 | |
| 1983 | 5.78 | MW gdp | 56.316 | 0.00 | |
| 1984 | 5.34 | MW gdp | 56.409 | 0.00 | |
| 1985 | 5.63 | MW gdp | 56.554 | 0.00 | |
| 1986 | 4.6 | MW gdp | 56.684 | 0.00 | |
| 1987 | 5.82 | MW gdp | 56.804 | 0.00 | |
| 1988 | 6.47 | MW gdp | 56.916 | 0.00 | |
| 1989 | 8.21 | MW gdp | 57.077 | 0.00 | |
| 1990 | 8.58 | MW gdp | 57.238 | 0.00 | |
| 1991 | 6.64 | MW gdp | 57.439 | 0.00 | |
| 1992 | 3.29 | MW gdp | 57.585 | 0.00 | |
| 1993 | 3.07 | MW gdp | 57.714 | 191.59 | a |
| 1994 | 1.91 | MW gdp | 57.862 | 207.96 | a |
Legend: Data Sources for 1951: Data Sources for 1994: | |||||
Spending Data Sources
Expenditure data since 1983 comes from HM Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis reports.
Detailed table of spending data sources here.
Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.
Central government spending data begins in 1692.
Local authority spending data begins in 1868.
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Data Sources for 1951_1994:
Sources for 1951:
GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Spending: National Income and Expenditure 1962, CSO
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics
Sources for 1994:
GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Spending: Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 1999 to 2000
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank
> spending data sources for other years
On April 23, 2026 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its annual Public Sector Finances report. On April 30, 2026 we updated ukpublicrevenue.co.uk with the new public finance data.
| £ billion | 2025-26 forecast | 2025-26 actual |
| Central Government | £1,071.9 | £1,136.9 |
| Local Authorities | £69.1 | £70.1 |
| Total UK Revenue | £1,141.0 | £1,207.0 |
Revenue outturn data comes from the Office for National Statistics' March 2026 Public Sector Finances report using a spreadsheet file pusf.csv labeled "Public sector finances time series". Outturn revenue data for ukpublicrevenue.co.uk now extends from 1692 to 2025-26.
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