US, State Population Update for 2016

On December 19, 2016 the US Census Bureau released its US national and state population estimates for July 1, 2016.  On December 26, 2016 usgovernmentspending.com updated its US and state population data as follows:

• We updated 2010-2016 population data for US and states using data from US Census Bureau Population Estimates: vintage 2016 in file nst-est2016-01.xlsx.
• We projected 2017 thru 2021 for US and the states assuming population rate change for 2015-16.
• We updated 2017 thru 2021 for US only using data from US Census Bureau 2014 National Population Projections in file NP2014-T1.xls.

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 and Local Finances for FY 2014

On December 10, 2016 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2014 using the newly Census Bureau State and Local Government Finances summaries for FY 2014 released on December 9, 2016.  This includes state and local spending for the United States as a whole and individual states and the District of Columbia.

State and local spending and revenue for FY2014 are now actual historical spending as reported by the Census Bureau.  Previously state spending and revenue for FY2014 was actual, and local spending and revenue was estimated.  The following table shows the difference between estimated and actual local spending and revenue for FY2014:

FY 2014	Estimated $ billion	Actual $ billion
Local Spending	$1,701	$1,707
Local Revenue	$1,252	$1,169

The Census Bureau has also updated state and local finances for 2012 and 2013, as follows:

	FY 2012 Previous $ billion	FY 2012 Latest $ billion	FY 2013 Previous $ billion	FY 2013 Latest $ billion
State Spending	$1,500	$1,497	$1,517	$1,517
Local Spending	$1,647	$1,650	$1,684	$1,658
State Revenue	$1,373	$1,366	$1,666	$1,666
Local Revenue	$1,076	$1,077	$1,169	$1,155

We have updated the "guesstimated" state and local finances for FY2015-21 as indicated in our "guesstimate" blog entries.