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Time Series Chart of UK Public Revenue

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You can display a maximum of five data series at once.

Spending Units: By default, public spending is displayed in billions of pounds. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select £ bln (2018), and percent of GDP.
Chart Title: You can create a title for your chart. Use the title text box to enter a title and click the button to the right of the text field.
General Help: You can use controls on the table below to change the following variables: spending units—e.g. percent of GDP, etc.— and year. You can select the HM Treasury Budget fiscal year.
Line/Bar: By default, the data series are displayed as line charts. But you can also select a bar chart.
Data Stack: By default, the data series are “stacked” when displayed on the chart. But you can change the setting to “un stack” the data series.
Chart Size: By default, the chart is displayed at medium size. But you can use the dropdown control to change the size.
Color: By default charts are displayed with color data lines and fill. You can change this to grayscale if you want.

Data Range

Start Year: You can select any start year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select a start year to get close, then select the start year you want.
End Year: You can select any end year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select an end year to get close, then select the end year you want.
Category (max 7)Sub-categoryCentral 
Gov.
General 
Gov.
Local 
Auth.
Total   
 
Data Series: You can select up to five data series to display on your chart. Click on a checkbox to add or delete a data series from the chart. Once you get to five data series you will have to delete a series before you can add one. Click a [+] expand control to drill down to more detailed data series.
 
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If you’d like to create your own custom chart of revenue data you should use the table above to make your selections.

  • Select the year range: Select the start year and the end year you want by selecting the years you want in the two year dropdown boxes.
  • Select revenue items: Just select the revenue item you want from the dropdown control. Then click a radio button to select the level of government: central or local. If you select from the < select > you will add another data series to your chart. Up to 5 data series are allowed at once. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart.
  • Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) pounds, billions of real (i.e. year 2018) pounds, or as percent of GDP.
  • Choose chart features: You can select the size of the chart, switch from bar chart to line chart, select color or black and white, stacked or not. You can also blow up the chart to fill the screen with the “fullsize” tab control above the chart display.

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Copy and Paste: Here is the dataset you have just charted. The table also includes nominal or chained GDP for each year charted. If you’d like the data for analysis, just copy the tab-delimited text in the textbox below (click cursor in text box, then press ctrl-A then press ctrl-C) and paste it into your spreadsheet.

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Below is a formatted version of the dataset displayed in the chart. Included is a column of nominal or chained GDP for each year charted.

National Insurance
Fiscal Years 1986 to 2020
YearInflationGDP-UK
£ billion nominal
Population-UK
million
National Insurance -total
£ billion nominal
19864.62MW gdp56.68424.64a
19875.69MW gdp56.80426.69a
19886.25MW gdp56.91628.14a
19898.03MW gdp57.07731.52a
19908.12MW gdp57.23833.52a
19916.56MW gdp57.43935.01a
19923.16MW gdp57.58536.69a
19932.79MW gdp57.71436.97a
19941.4MW gdp57.86240.14a
19952.5MW gdp58.02542.83a
19964.22MW gdp58.16445.01a
1997-0.07MW gdp58.31447.22a
19981.07MW gdp58.47551.69a
19990.97MW gdp58.68454.75a
20001.89MW gdp58.88656.94a
20011.15MW gdp59.11362.07a
20022.15MW gdp59.36663.16a
20032.45MW gdp59.63763.53a
20042.59MW gdp59.95075.15a
20052.78MW gdp60.41380.92a
20062.88MW gdp60.82785.56a
20072.76MW gdp61.31990.92a
20083.07MW gdp61.82495.44a
2009-0.261584.562.26196.61a
20101.321561.962.76096.64a
20111.721630.763.28597.75a
20121.791672.563.705101.60a
20131.761727.564.106104.48a
20142.131803.164.597107.31a
20151.141879.865.110110.26a
20160.811937.665.648114.21a
20172.12021.766.040125.98a
20181.72102.366.436131.78a
20191.822176.766.797137.68a
20202.612247.167.844144.07a

Legend:
a - actual outturn

Data Sources for 1986:
GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Revenue: ONS PSF time series dataset
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank

Data Sources for 2020:
GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
Revenue: OBR March 2018 Economic and fiscal outlook – charts and tables: fiscal
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank

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On March 16, 2024 we updated UK revenue forecast data for 2023-24 to 2026-27 from the Office of Budget Responsibility's March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook report  in a zip file labeled "March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook - charts and tables (zip file)" and a spreadsheet file named "Annex_A_charts_and_tables_March_2024.xlsx" and Table A.5: Current Receipts in tab "TA.5".

UK Government Revenue Forecast
2022-23 ForecastMarch 2023
£ billion
March 2024
£ billion
Central Government£951.9£987.4
Local Authorities£68.1£670.6
Total UK Revenue£1,020.0£1,058.0

On March 16, 2024 we updated UK deficit forecast data for 2023-24 to 2028-29 from the Office of Budget Responsibility's March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook report Table 6.5 Components of Net Borrowing in tab "6.5" in a zip file labeled "March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook - detailed forecast tables (zip file)" and a spreadsheet file named "Detailed_forecast_tables_Aggregates_March_2024.xlsx".

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