Office of Management and Budget

Historical Tables

Historical Tables provides data on budget receipts, outlays, surpluses or deficits, Federal debt, and Federal employment over an extended time period, generally from 1940 or earlier to 2012 or 2016.

To the extent feasible, the data have been adjusted to provide consistency with the 2012 Budget and to provide comparability over time.

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Table 1.1—Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits (-): 1789–2016 32 K XLS
Table 1.2—Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits (-) as Percentages of GDP: 1930–2016 31 K XLS
Table 1.3—Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits (-) in Current Dollars, Constant (FY 2005) Dollars, and as Percentages of GDP: 1940–2016 31 K XLS
Table 1.4—Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits (-) by Fund Group: 1934–2016 28 K XLS
     
Table 2.1—Receipts by Source: 1934–2016 29 K XLS
Table 2.2—Percentage Composition of Receipts by Source: 1934–2016 29 K XLS
Table 2.3—Receipts by Source as Percentages of GDP: 1934–2016 30 K XLS
Table 2.4—Composition of Social Insurance and Retirement Receipts and of Excise Taxes: 1940–2016 55 K XLS
Table 2.5—Composition of "Other Receipts": 1940–2016 29 K XLS
     
Table 3.1—Outlays by Superfunction and Function: 1940–2016 52 K XLS
Table 3.2—Outlays by Function and Subfunction: 1962–2016 76 K XLS
     
Table 4.1—Outlays by Agency: 1962–2016 33 K XLS
Table 4.2—Percentage Distribution of Outlays by Agency: 1962–2016 37 K XLS
     
Table 5.1—Budget Authority by Function and Subfunction: 1976–2016 63 K XLS
Table 5.2—Budget Authority by Agency: 1976–2016 30 K XLS
Table 5.3—Percentage Distribution of Budget Authority by Agency: 1976–2016 33 K XLS
Table 5.4—Discretionary Budget Authority by Agency: 1976–2016 30 K XLS
Table 5.5—Percentage Distribution of Discretionary Budget Authority by Agency: 1976–2016 34 K XLS
Table 5.6—Budget Authority for Discretionary Programs: 1976–2016 31 K XLS
     
Table 6.1—Composition of Outlays: 1940–2016 48 K XLS
     
Table 7.1—Federal Debt at the End of Year: 1940–2016 29 K XLS
Table 7.2—Debt Subject to Statutory Limit: 1940–2016 20 K XLS
Table 7.3—Statutory Limits on Federal Debt: 1940–Current 36 K XLS
     
Table 8.1—Outlays by Budget Enforcement Act Category: 1962–2016 30 K XLS
Table 8.2—Outlays by Budget Enforcement Act Category in Constant (FY 2005) Dollars: 1962–2016 23 K XLS
Table 8.3—Percentage Distribution of Outlays by Budget Enforcement Act Category: 1962–2016 30 K XLS
Table 8.4—Outlays by Budget Enforcement Act Category as Percentages of GDP: 1962–2016 30 K XLS
Table 8.5—Outlays for Mandatory and Related Programs: 1962–2016 43 K XLS
Table 8.6—Outlays for Mandatory and Related Programs in Constant (FY 2005) Dollars: 1962–2016 49 K XLS
Table 8.7—Outlays for Discretionary Programs: 1962–2016 34 K XLS
Table 8.8—Outlays for Discretionary Programs in Constant (FY 2005) Dollars: 1962–2016 38 K XLS
     
Table 9.1—Total Investment Outlays for Physical Capital, Research and Development, and Education and Training: 1962–2012 26 K XLS
Table 9.2—Major Public Physical Capital Investment Outlays in Current and Constant (FY 2005) Dollars: 1940–2012 28 K XLS
Table 9.3—Major Public Physical Capital Investment Outlays in Percentage Terms: 1940–2012 29 K XLS
Table 9.4—National Defense Outlays for Major Public Direct Physical Capital Investment: 1940–2012 27 K XLS
Table 9.5—Nondefense Outlays for Major Public Direct Physical Capital Investment: 1940–2012 28 K XLS
Table 9.6—Composition of Outlays for Grants for Major Public Physical Capital Investment: 1941–2012 36 K XLS
Table 9.7—Summary of Outlays for the Conduct of Research and Development: 1949–2012 (In Current Dollars, as Percentages of Total Outlays, as Percentages of GDP, and in Constant (FY 2005) Dollars) 28 K XLS
Table 9.8—Composition of Outlays for the Conduct of Research and Development: 1949–2012 30 K XLS
Table 9.9—Composition of Outlays for the Conduct of Education and Training: 1962–2012 26 K XLS
     
Table 10.1—Gross Domestic Product and Deflators Used in the Historical Tables: 1940–2016 38 K XLS
     
Table 11.1—Summary Comparison of Outlays for Payments for Individuals: 1940–2016 (In Current Dollars, as Percentages of Total Outlays, as Percentages of GDP, and in Constant (FY 2005) Dollars) 23 K XLS
Table 11.2—Functional Composition of Outlays for Payments for Individuals: 1940–2016 54 K XLS
Table 11.3—Outlays for Payments for Individuals by Category and Major Program: 1940–2016 178 K XLS
     
Table 12.1—Summary Comparison of Total Outlays for Grants to State and Local Governments: 1940–2016 (in Current Dollars, as Percentages of Total Outlays, as Percentages of GDP, and in Constant (FY 2005) Dollars) 25 K XLS
Table 12.2—Total Outlays for Grants to State and Local Governments, by Function and Fund Group: 1940–2016 39 K XLS
Table 12.3—Total Outlays for Grants to State and Local Governments, by Function, Agency, and Program: 1940–2012 434 K XLS
     
Table 13.1—Cash Income, Outgo, and Balances of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds: 1936–2016 100 K XLS
     
Table 14.1—Federal Transactions in the National Income and Product Accounts for Federal Fiscal Years: 1948–2012 45 K XLS
Table 14.2—Federal Transactions in the National Income and Product Accounts as Percentages of GDP for Federal Fiscal Years: 1948–2012 44 K XLS
     
Table 15.1—Total Government Receipts in Absolute Amounts and as Percentages of GDP: 1948–2010 27 K XLS
Table 15.2—Total Government Expenditures: 1948–2010 25 K XLS
Table 15.3—Total Government Expenditures as Percentages of GDP: 1948–2010 25 K XLS
Table 15.4—Total Government Expenditures by Major Category of Expenditure: 1948–2010 25 K XLS
Table 15.5—Total Government Expenditures by Major Category of Expenditure as Percentages of GDP: 1948–2010 25 K XLS
Table 15.6—Total Government Surpluses or Deficits (-) in Absolute Amounts and as Percentages of GDP: 1948–2010 26 K XLS
     
Table 16.1—Total Outlays for Health Programs: 1962–2016 29 K XLS
     
Table 17.1—Total Executive Branch Civilian Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees, 1981–2012 24 K XLS
Table 17.2—Total Executive Branch Civilian Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees, 1981–2012 as percentage of total 24 K XLS