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Welfare Spending Chart

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Year GDP-UK £ billion Population-UK million Welfare-total £ billion 1990 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 57.330 36.66 a 1991 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 57.439 42.99 a 1992 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 57.604 47.42 a 1993 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 57.770 54.00 i 1994 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 57.936 59.24 i 1995 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.103 60.15 i 1996 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.270 63.65 i 1997 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.438 64.42 i 1998 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.606 62.08 i 1999 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.775 54.89 a 2000 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.944 59.08 a 2001 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 59.114 57.73 a 2002 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 59.455 59.21 a 2003 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 59.799 65.53 a 2004 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 60.145 73.95 a 2005 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 60.493 77.98 a 2006 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 60.843 81.57 a 2007 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 61.194 83.47 a 2008 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 61.548 90.35 a 2009 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 61.904 99.53 a 2010 1538.5 62.262 110.71 a 2011 1598.3 62.649 112.22 a 2012 1642.2 63.039 118.04 a 2013 1701.9 63.432 116.99 a 2014 1771.9 63.827 113.87 a 2015 1852.1 64.225 114.28 a 2016 1904.6 64.625 113.47 a 2017 1984.8 65.027 112.51 a 2018 2054.7 65.432 112.73 e 2019 2116.4 65.840 115.03 g 2020 2176.4 66.250 110.86 g Legend: a - actual outturn i - interpolated between actual reported values e - estimate in HM Treasury hist budget g - 'guesstimated' projection by ukpublicspending.co.uk Data Sources for 1990: GDP: www.measuringworth.org/ukgdp/ Measuring Worth - UK GDP Spending: webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130814180755/http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm39/3901/contents.htm Archived Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis 1998-99 Debt: obr.uk/data/ OBR Public Finances Databank Data Sources for 2020: GDP: obr.uk/efo/economic-fiscal-outlook-march-2018/ OBR EFO supp. economy tables Spending: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-treasury/series/public-expenditure-statistical-analyses-pesa HM Treasury PESA Debt: obr.uk/data/ OBR Public Finances Databank

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Expenditure data since 1983 comes from HM Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis reports.

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Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.

Central government spending data begins in 1692.

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Data Sources for 1990_2020:

Sources for 1990:

GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Spending: Archived Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis 1998-99
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank

Sources for 2020:

GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
Spending: HM Treasury PESA
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank

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