Public Spending in the USA
Friday November 21, 2008 
compiled by Christopher Chantrill

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Download UK Public Spending Data Series 1900-2011

You can download any of the raw data series used to compile the public spending data in usgovernmentspending.com. You select the data series you want and then copy-paste the tab delimited data from a textbox on this page into your spreadsheet.

Download Instructions:

Prepare a suite of data for download by making a selection from one of the dropdown menus below. You can select:

  1. A group of functionally related spending data series
  2. An individual spending data series
You can also remove individual data series that you don’t want.

Select Functional Data Series Group: Select a group of data series to download (you can add individual data series later):

Add Individual Data Series: Select Spending Data Series to add to download (you can add more later):

Change Data Units: You can download data in raw format (i.e., in the units used in the database for each item, or in £ billion, £ million, or percent of GDP.

raw
£ billion
£ million
percent GDP

Select Fiscal Year: You can select the budget for which you want to download estimated federal spending.

Copy and Paste: When you have created the dataset you want then 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.

Here is a formatted version of the data you have selected.You can remove a data series by selecting “out” in the dropdown for each data series.

YearGDP(CKTOT) Total central government own expenditure(GKTOT) General government expenditure(LKTOT) Total Local Authorities' current expenditure
19001885182099
190118931960103
190219061790108
190318811460113
190418811280118
190519491180124
190620331190125
190721131170126
190820111200127
190920521330129
191021401420130
191122271490132
191223271590134
191324201690137
191424511890134
191529438270132
1916343410590126
1917427613940122
1918510822880139
1919548416730193
1920597512750317
1921490710290401
192244588130364
192342547030322
192443666900337
192545087010371
192643497030404
192745996920414
192845996950399
19294692.00007020405
19304615.00007250420
19314316.00007450429
19324223.00007360402
19334298.00006760390
19344517.00006620399
19354720.00006900428
19364987.00007260461
19375334.00008050498
19385502.000010560531
19395918.000015270551
19407183.000034410538
19418654.000047460558
19429482.000053670537
194310093.000058970506
194410180.000060690505
19459908.000053820544
19469968.000037700693
194710772.000031270907
19481198832120987
194912732343001010
195013285347901060
195114793052600
195216023058360
195317147060990
195418148060310
195519505062410
195620966067630
195722111069790
195823050074010
195924347078160
196025974083500
1961274040103070
1962286910109990
1963303660116510
1964331620127430
1965358020141220
1966380990152890
1967401910174940
1968435300190920
1969468830197890
1970515230215950
1971574690242400
1972643420263900
1973740200305460
1974837930392180
19751058640515240
19761252030584640
19771456630618670
19781679050719490
19791974380851660
198023080001038580
198125315401160600
198227719801280440
198330297301327000
198432463301405000
198535526901509000
198638178201586000
198742155901646000
198847074801736000
198951707501799000
199056088702009000
199158973902182000
199261477602362000
199364550002606000
199468406702765000
1995723080224930073974
1996768905233251076118
1997815881242637075709
1998865710249067075879
1999911945246386075373
2000958931252780081075
20011003297270564085653
20021055793286413091227
20031118245304363099397
200411842963318440107493
200512339763555350118591
200612996223613030127044
200713386113971320132669
200813653834234710140853
200913995174483000149542
201014380044703000158767
201114811444957000168561

 


Democratic Capitalism

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


Education

“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


Government Expenditure

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


Mutual Aid

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