Public Spending in the USA
Wednesday January 7, 2009 
compiled by Christopher Chantrill

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Download UK Public Spending Data Series 1692-2011

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(CKPPO) Police services(GKPPO) Police(LKPPO) Police services
18801.218003
18811.243003
18821.283003
18831.285003
18841.244003
18851.217004
18861.226004
18871.278004
18881.333004
18891.408004
18901.442004
18911.444004
18921.405005
18931.406005
18941.484005
18951.521005
18961.57005
18971.616005
18981.705005
18991.809005
195114.7930700
195216.0230780
195317.1470820
195418.1480850
195519.5050920
195620.96601040
195722.11101100
195823.0501160
195924.34701240
196025.97401340
196127.40401560
196228.69101660
196330.36601810
196433.16201970
196535.80202170
196638.09902490
196740.19102810
196843.5303060
196946.88303360
197051.52303710
197157.46904380
197264.34204770
197374.0205600
197483.79306990
1975105.86409150
1976125.203011460
1977145.663012030
1978167.905013950
1979197.438016910
1980230.8020900
1981253.154025510
1982277.198029340
1995723.0882200
1996768.90582400
1997815.88183400
1998865.7190900
1999911.94599100
2000958.93195200
20011003.297102900
20021055.793171800
20031118.245340000
20041184.296337000
20051233.976374500
20061303.915372800
20071381.565395600
20081405416500
20091473412800
20101550459500
20111632473700

 


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


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


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


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