U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Economic Analysis

National Income and Product Accounts Table
Table 3.16. Government Current Expenditures by Function [Billions of dollars]
Today is: 9/20/2008 Last Revised on September 11, 2008

Data Table Options

First Year	Last Year	Series:	Annual(A) Quarterly(Q) Monthly(M)
		Get all years
HTML Locking Stubs (Requires Java Enabled Browser) What is that?

Tools Options

	Printer friendly page.
	Printing instructions
	Help is available for downloading csv files.
	Download Dates Shown(CSV)
	Download All Years(CSV)
	Advanced Download

Line		2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
1	Government¹	3,428.1	3,623.2	3,882.6	4,118.8	4,396.7
2	General public service	486.5	506.8	562.7	599.2	651.3
3	Executive and legislative	66.1	76.5	91.0	88.7	100.0
4	Tax collection and financial management	44.6	45.4	46.2	48.0	50.1
5	Interest payments²	300.6	309.3	345.3	376.5	411.1
6	Other³	75.3	75.6	80.2	86.0	90.1
7	National defense	436.8	482.9	515.2	544.6	580.1
8	Public order and safety	218.8	231.2	245.7	262.8	283.8
9	Police	89.7	96.3	103.5	110.2	120.0
10	Fire	27.9	28.9	31.9	35.2	38.5
11	Law courts	40.1	42.2	43.2	45.6	48.4
12	Prisons	61.1	63.7	67.2	71.9	77.0
13	Economic affairs	226.1	226.0	247.9	253.9	265.6
14	Transportation	113.6	114.6	123.5	132.2	140.2
15	Highways	82.9	86.4	93.6	101.0	109.4
16	Air	19.7	16.2	17.3	18.4	18.5
17	Water	8.9	9.6	10.3	10.8	10.2
18	Transit and railroad	2.1	2.4	2.3	2.1	2.0
19	Space	13.7	14.8	15.0	14.7	16.3
20	Other economic affairs	98.9	96.7	109.3	107.0	109.1
21	General economic and labor affairs	29.5	29.3	31.6	33.0	36.0
22	Agriculture	32.8	28.5	40.3	34.1	29.2
23	Energy	11.4	12.5	11.3	11.8	13.0
24	Natural resources	25.2	26.4	26.0	28.2	30.9
25	Postal service	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
26	Other⁴	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
27	Housing and community services	35.2	36.5	41.1	40.3	47.6
28	Health	645.6	703.0	756.7	826.8	892.4
29	Recreation and culture	24.3	25.7	27.5	29.3	31.3
30	Education	562.0	592.9	624.1	656.9	695.6
31	Elementary and secondary	418.2	438.6	459.4	484.4	511.7
32	Higher	98.4	105.3	111.9	116.3	123.4
33	Libraries and other	45.4	49.0	52.8	56.2	60.5
34	Libraries	7.5	7.9	8.5	9.0	9.7
35	Other	37.9	41.1	44.3	47.1	50.8
36	Income security	792.8	818.2	861.8	904.9	949.0
37	Disability	121.5	132.8	143.5	151.4	160.7
38	Retirement⁵	404.2	418.1	437.0	463.7	490.5
39	Welfare and social services	166.4	174.4	185.7	189.5	198.1
40	Unemployment	53.2	37.0	31.8	30.8	33.2
41	Other	47.5	55.9	63.8	69.5	66.4
42	Federal	2,252.1	2,379.5	2,558.6	2,711.6	2,880.5
43	General public service	282.8	291.0	337.0	359.5	399.6
44	Executive and legislative	58.1	57.6	69.4	64.1	73.2
45	Tax collection and financial management	11.8	12.4	12.2	13.1	13.8
46	Interest payments²	212.9	221.0	255.4	282.3	312.6
47	Other⁶	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
48	National defense	440.4	486.6	519.1	548.4	583.9
49	Public order and safety	32.3	36.7	40.2	42.8	44.4
50	Police	20.6	24.9	28.2	29.7	31.1
51	Fire	0.8	0.3	0.2	0.8	0.5
52	Law courts	6.8	6.9	6.8	7.1	7.5
53	Prisons	4.2	4.8	5.0	5.3	5.4
54	Economic affairs	118.1	115.5	127.9	124.6	125.2
55	Transportation	31.2	28.7	30.8	32.3	31.8
56	Highways	0.9	0.8	1.2	1.5	1.5
57	Air	19.7	16.2	17.3	18.4	18.5
58	Water	8.9	9.6	10.3	10.8	10.2
59	Transit and railroad	1.7	2.0	1.9	1.8	1.6
60	Space	14.6	15.3	15.6	15.2	16.9
61	Other economic affairs	72.4	71.4	81.5	77.1	76.4
62	General economic and labor affairs	14.8	16.8	16.2	15.9	17.0
63	Agriculture	27.6	23.7	35.4	29.2	24.2
64	Energy	13.0	13.8	12.7	13.1	14.3
65	Natural resources	16.9	17.2	17.2	19.0	20.9
66	Postal service	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
67	Housing and community services	42.0	42.9	46.9	46.5	52.5
68	Health	532.2	575.0	612.9	671.9	718.2
69	Recreation and culture	4.1	4.7	4.9	4.9	4.9
70	Education	60.7	67.3	70.2	71.6	71.2
71	Elementary and secondary	28.3	33.1	33.9	34.3	33.3
72	Higher	18.8	20.1	21.8	21.5	22.7
73	Other	13.6	14.0	14.5	15.8	15.2
74	Income security	739.3	759.9	799.6	841.3	880.7
75	Disability	103.4	113.9	124.3	132.0	140.4
76	Retirement⁵	404.2	418.1	437.0	463.7	490.5
77	Welfare and social services	122.5	127.5	134.0	136.2	142.3
78	Unemployment	56.8	40.5	35.2	34.2	36.4
79	Other	52.5	59.9	69.1	75.2	71.1
80	State and local	1,514.5	1,592.8	1,684.9	1,765.3	1,892.4
81	General public service	216.2	218.9	228.7	241.9	254.4
82	Executive and legislative	20.4	21.9	24.6	26.9	29.4
83	Tax collection and financial management	32.8	33.0	34.0	34.8	36.3
84	Interest payments	87.7	88.4	89.9	94.3	98.5
85	Other⁷	75.3	75.6	80.2	86.0	90.1
86	Public order and safety	189.3	198.5	211.0	225.8	244.7
87	Police	71.4	74.9	80.1	85.6	93.4
88	Fire	27.1	28.7	31.7	34.5	38.0
89	Law courts	33.3	35.4	36.4	38.5	40.9
90	Prisons	57.5	59.6	62.8	67.3	72.4
91	Economic affairs	120.0	122.9	131.9	141.1	151.5
92	Transportation	82.4	85.9	92.7	99.9	108.3
93	Highways	82.0	85.5	92.3	99.5	107.9
94	Transit and railroad	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
95	Other economic affairs	37.6	36.9	39.2	41.3	43.1
96	General economic and labor affairs	19.9	18.6	20.5	21.8	22.8
97	Agriculture	6.1	5.7	5.8	5.8	6.0
98	Energy	-0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
99	Natural resources	11.9	12.7	12.9	13.6	14.3
100	Other⁴	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
101	Housing and community services⁸	7.6	7.7	8.2	8.7	15.7
102	Health	299.3	329.2	352.7	358.0	391.2
103	Recreation and culture	20.5	21.4	23.1	24.9	26.8
104	Education	535.4	564.4	593.7	626.8	663.9
105	Elementary and secondary	416.6	436.8	457.9	483.1	510.4
106	Higher	82.2	87.8	92.7	97.4	103.3
107	Libraries and other	36.5	39.8	43.0	46.3	50.3
108	Libraries	7.5	7.9	8.5	9.0	9.7
109	Other	29.1	31.9	34.6	37.3	40.6
110	Income security	126.1	129.8	135.6	137.9	144.3
111	Disability	19.9	20.8	21.1	21.3	22.2
112	Welfare and social services	106.2	109.1	114.5	116.6	122.1

Footnotes

Help with Comma Separated Value (CSV) Download

First Year Last Year Annual(A) Quarterly(Q) Monthly(M)

Small Font Legal Letter Landscape Portrait

Help on Printing

Page creation time = 0.5 Seconds - page last updated 5-16-08

Frequently Requested NIPA Tables Selected Tables All Tables Index

Bureau of Economic Analysis is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

National Income and Product Accounts Table