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(CKPPR) Prisons(GKPPR) Prisons
195114.793017
195216.023018
195317.147021
195418.148024
195519.505026
195620.966027
195722.111031
195823.05034
195924.347040
196025.974046
196127.404022
196228.691024
196330.366028
196433.162032
196535.802031
196638.099034
196740.191039
196843.53048
196946.883056
197051.523065
197157.469076
197264.342089
197374.020107
197483.7930148
1975105.8640193
1976125.2030234
1977145.6630275
1978167.9050315
1979197.4380342
1980230.80470
1981253.1540545
1982277.1980554
1995723.0819160
1996768.90519620
1997815.88119250
1998865.7120550
1999911.94522830
2000958.93122970
20011003.29724570
20021055.79325910
20031118.24528880
20041184.29629830
20051233.97632410
20061303.91536750
20071381.56539340
2008140545690
2009147345070
2010155046600
2011163249230

 


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


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


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