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All About the Government Revenue Numbers
usgovernmentreveue.com has data on US government revenue going back to 1792.
- Federal revenue goes back to 1792
- State and local revenue for all states combined goes back to 1890.
- State and local revenue for individual states goes back to 1957.
Revenue data is primarily organized by major revenue function, such as Income Taxes, Ad Valorem Taxes, etc. You can look at data for a single year or a range of years.
Look at Revenue Data for Single Year
Federal, State, and Local Revenue TOTALS for current year or for
Total Revenue Functional BREAKDOWN for current year or for
Federal, State, and Local Revenue DETAILS for current year or for
Revenue DETAILS for individual cities, counties, etc. for latest year.
Look at Revenue Data Series over a range of years
You can look at individual data series or combine up to 5 data series together.
Total Revenue for the last ten years.
Total Revenue for the last ten years.
Once you have set up a single data series, you can add additional data series, change the range of years, change the units, etc.
General Overview of Data on This Site
The idea of usgovernmentrevenue.com is to provide a resource for people wanting to research US government finances. We have generated curated data series of the major functions of government revenue so that you can inspect and download the numbers on revenue at all levels of government.
For the federal government we have data going back to 1792, shortly after the founding. The data going back to 1962 come from the President’s annual federal budget. Data from 1961 going back to 1792 comes from data series published by the US Census Bureau.
For individual states we have state and local government revenue going back to 1957. For states and local governments in aggregate we have full data going back to 1900, and limited data going back to 1820.
If you are interested in data for a specific year we have a Revenue Details page that shows the major revenue functions for a specific year, federal, state, and local, and that allows you do drill down a couple of levels to view (and download) the data in more detail.
If you are interested in data for a range of years we have a Custom Chart page that lets you generate data on revenue for a range of years. It allows you to generate charts, look at data, and download the data to your computer in tab format that you can copy and paste into a spreadsheet, or as a .csv file that you can import directly into a spreadsheet program.
The best thing to do is to experiment with the Revenue Details page or the Custom Chart page and see what they can do for you. Also you can look around the site at the Revenue Analysis and Revenue History pages. These pages and their charts were created using the features that are also available to you.
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Revenue Data Sources
Revenue data is from official government sources.
- Federal revenue data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
- All other revenue data comes from the US Census Bureau.
Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.
Detailed table of revenue data sources here.
Federal revenue data begins in 1792.
State and local revenue data begins in 1820.
State and local revenue data for individual states begins in 1957.
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Medicaid Update for FY2024
On January 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual report on National Health Expenditures and its NHE Tables includes data on Medicaid from 1960 to 2023. On January 15, 2026, usgovernmentspending.com updated its Medicaid data.
| Item | 2024 Estimate | 2024 Actual |
| Federal Medicaid | $567.2 bn | $567.2 bn |
| State Medicaid (net) | $124.4 bn | $253.2 bn |
| Total Medicaid | $691.6 bn | $820.4 bn |
The federal Medicaid number comes from the Federal Budget Subfunction 558: Grants to states for Medicaid. The state contribution comes from the NHE Tables.
usgovernmentspending.com publishes "guesstimates" of state and local spending from the latest year published by the Census Bureau (currently FY 2023) to the last year in the Historical Tables of the federal budget. (currently 2029 from the FY25 budget). So we have developed "guesstimates" of Medicaid spending going out to 2029, assuming that the overall Medicaid spending increases at the same rate as the federal "Grants to States for Medicaid" increases.
National Health Expenditure data is updated each year in mid December.
On March 27, 2025 the Congressional Budget Office released its annual Long Term Budget Outlook for 2025, which projects federal spendin ...
On November 22, 2025 usgovernmentspending.com updated FY2025 state revenue with quarterly tax data released by the US Ce ...
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