US, State Population Update for 2022

On December 29, 2022 the US Census Bureau released its US national and state population estimates for July 1, 2022.  On December 30, 2022 usgovernmentspending.com updated its US and state population data as follows:

• We updated 2021 and 2022 population data from US and states using data from US Census National Population Totals and Components of Change 2021-2022 in file NST-EST2022-POP.xlsx.
• We updated 2010-2020 population data for US and states using data from US Census Bureau Population Estimates: Vintage 2020, State Population Totals, in file nst-est2020.xlsx.
• We projected 2022 thru 2028 for the US and states assuming population rate change for 2021-22.

usgovernmentspending.com uses population data in computing per capita spending and revenue data. You can see per capita spending data in a chart here, and in a table of spending here.

You can check the data update schedule here.

State FY22 Taxes Update

On December 9, 2022 usgovernmentspending.com updated FY2022 state revenue with quarterly tax data released by the US Census Bureau on September 8, 2022.  Local tax data was updated by assuming that local taxes for 2021 changed by the same percent as state taxes of the same type.

$ billion	FY2022 Estimate	FY2022 Actual
State Income Tax Revenue	$652	$608
Total State Revenue	$2,180	$2,101

State and local spending projections for FY2023 to FY2027 have been reestimated using the "Guesstimate" method.