Analysis

Click to view

Time Series Chart of UK Public Revenue

chart
wizard

download
data

download
tab-delimited

thin

Use the table below to change the data series

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 (2019), 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.

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 2019) 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.

Download Data File

Click button to download CSV file of dataset in chart.

Download Tab-delimited Data

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.

Year Inflation GDP-UK £2019 per capita Population-UK million Income and Capital Taxes-total £2019 per capita 1900 4.12 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 41.155 108.27 a 1901 -1.43 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 41.538 128.62 a 1902 -1 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 41.893 155.66 a 1903 -0.28 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 42.247 165.25 a 1904 -1.08 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 42.611 139.70 a 1905 0.46 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 42.981 137.88 a 1906 1.42 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 43.361 136.76 a 1907 1.54 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 43.738 139.05 a 1908 -0.72 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 44.124 141.06 a 1909 -0.35 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 44.520 142.46 a 1910 1.43 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 44.916 93.47 a 1911 0.6 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 42.190 246.36 a 1912 2.6 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 42.374 192.11 a 1913 -0.16 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 42.582 190.92 a 1914 -0.81 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 42.957 203.31 a 1915 14.34 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 41.362 243.68 a 1916 14.79 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 40.536 353.29 a 1917 24.32 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 39.781 682.83 a 1918 16.81 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 39.582 769.66 a 1919 15.24 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 42.944 751.29 a 1920 16.64 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 43.646 714.63 a 1921 -8.17 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 43.904 748.27 a 1922 -14.46 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 44.332 648.59 a 1923 -7.53 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 44.563 634.51 a 1924 -2.09 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 44.886 580.88 a 1925 -0.26 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 45.040 584.58 a 1926 -0.42 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 45.218 566.01 a 1927 -1.94 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 45.432 532.30 a 1928 -0.89 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 45.622 558.68 a 1929 -0.84 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 45.731 541.52 a 1930 -0.84 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 45.889 543.10 a 1931 -1.83 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 46.074 600.08 a 1932 -2.24 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 46.335 644.30 a 1933 -1.39 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 46.520 590.15 a 1934 -0.87 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 46.666 558.92 a 1935 0.79 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 46.869 544.16 a 1936 0.9 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 47.081 560.30 a 1937 3.46 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 47.289 571.02 a 1938 2.36 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 47.494 619.04 a 1939 2.89 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 47.548 673.88 a 1940 11.13 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 46.029 716.93 a 1941 11.46 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 44.870 915.76 a 1942 7.49 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 44.323 1338.73 a 1943 4.44 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 48.262 1518.80 a 1944 5 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 48.460 1720.76 a 1945 1.64 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 48.669 1822.63 a 1946 2.81 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 48.988 1764.77 a 1947 9.08 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 49.539 1357.26 a 1948 6.34 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 50.033 1183.25 a 1949 3.19 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 50.331 1317.78 a 1950 1.34 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 50.382 1435.25 a 1951 8.55 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 50.287 1317.37 a 1952 7.11 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 50.429 1351.98 a 1953 1.83 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 50.593 1455.35 a 1954 1.13 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 50.765 1353.47 a 1955 4.91 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 50.946 1310.68 a 1956 7.05 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 51.184 1267.79 a 1957 4.08 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 51.430 1307.50 a 1958 3.7 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 51.653 1332.28 a 1959 0.76 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 51.956 1382.20 a 1960 1.11 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 52.373 1327.92 a 1961 3.88 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 52.807 1363.96 a 1962 3.65 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 53.292 1491.17 a 1963 1.55 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 53.625 1499.65 a 1964 3.77 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 53.991 1443.69 a 1965 6.05 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 54.350 1499.32 a 1966 5.42 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 54.643 1642.66 a 1967 3.03 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 54.959 1726.16 a 1968 4.44 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 55.214 1840.33 a 1969 6.75 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 55.461 1993.95 a 1970 9.92 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 55.632 2066.61 a 1971 8.57 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 55.928 2077.57 a 1972 7.9 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.097 2062.33 a 1973 9.39 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.223 1931.62 a 1974 15.8 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.236 1953.10 a 1975 25.7 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.226 2141.70 a 1976 16.02 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.216 2294.52 a 1977 14.17 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.190 2300.60 a 1978 12.31 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.178 2157.31 a 1979 14.98 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.240 2089.34 a 1980 19.69 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.330 2061.35 a 1981 12.31 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.358 2155.79 a 1982 8.16 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.291 2396.47 a 1983 5.78 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.316 2443.14 a 1984 5.34 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.409 2450.05 a 1985 5.63 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.554 2583.16 a 1986 4.6 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.684 2669.59 a 1987 5.82 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.804 2550.66 a 1988 6.47 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 56.916 2689.08 a 1989 8.21 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 57.077 2685.12 a 1990 8.58 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 57.238 2764.27 a 1991 6.64 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 57.439 2764.03 a 1992 3.29 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 57.585 2776.83 a 1993 3.07 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 57.714 2534.95 a 1994 1.91 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 57.862 2497.77 a 1995 2.68 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.025 2711.02 a 1996 4.24 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.164 2850.58 a 1997 -0.15 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.314 3018.55 a 1998 1.33 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.475 3308.81 a 1999 1.42 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.684 3519.68 a 2000 1.17 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 58.886 3738.87 a 2001 1.55 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 59.113 3939.65 a 2002 2.16 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 59.366 3876.89 a 2003 2.46 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 59.637 3728.19 a 2004 2.65 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 59.950 3765.74 a 2005 3.02 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 60.413 4005.82 a 2006 2.86 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 60.827 4309.73 a 2007 2.31 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 61.319 4498.37 a 2008 3.42 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 61.824 4631.68 a 2009 0.87 measuringworth.com/ukgdp 62.261 4395.27 a 2010 1.32 32519 62.760 3947.18 a 2011 1.94 33054 63.285 4125.50 a 2012 1.78 33161 63.705 4024.49 a 2013 1.88 33421 64.106 3863.88 a 2014 1.96 33926 64.597 3870.22 a 2015 1.25 34707 65.110 3961.65 a 2016 0.74 35122 65.648 4079.17 a 2017 2.31 35631 66.040 4245.34 a Legend: a - actual outturn Data Sources for 1900: GDP: www.measuringworth.org/ukgdp/ Measuring Worth - UK GDP Revenue: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Historical-Statistics-B-Mitchell/dp/1107402441/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366835878&sr=8-1 B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics Debt: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Historical-Statistics-B-Mitchell/dp/1107402441/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366835878&sr=8-1 B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics Data Sources for 2017: GDP: obr.uk/efo/economic-fiscal-outlook-march-2018/ OBR EFO supp. economy tables Revenue: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/datasets/publicsectorfinances ONS PSF time series dataset Debt: obr.uk/data/ OBR Public Finances Databank

View Data Series

back to chart |back to table | back to top

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.

Income And Capital Taxes
Fiscal Years 1900 to 2017
Year	Inflation	GDP-UK £2019 per capita	Population-UK million	Income and Capital Taxes -total -total £2019 per capita
1900	4.12	MW gdp	41.155	108.27	a
1901	-1.43	MW gdp	41.538	128.62	a
1902	-1	MW gdp	41.893	155.66	a
1903	-0.28	MW gdp	42.247	165.25	a
1904	-1.08	MW gdp	42.611	139.70	a
1905	0.46	MW gdp	42.981	137.88	a
1906	1.42	MW gdp	43.361	136.76	a
1907	1.54	MW gdp	43.738	139.05	a
1908	-0.72	MW gdp	44.124	141.06	a
1909	-0.35	MW gdp	44.520	142.46	a
1910	1.43	MW gdp	44.916	93.47	a
1911	0.6	MW gdp	42.190	246.36	a
1912	2.6	MW gdp	42.374	192.11	a
1913	-0.16	MW gdp	42.582	190.92	a
1914	-0.81	MW gdp	42.957	203.31	a
1915	14.34	MW gdp	41.362	243.68	a
1916	14.79	MW gdp	40.536	353.29	a
1917	24.32	MW gdp	39.781	682.83	a
1918	16.81	MW gdp	39.582	769.66	a
1919	15.24	MW gdp	42.944	751.29	a
1920	16.64	MW gdp	43.646	714.63	a
1921	-8.17	MW gdp	43.904	748.27	a
1922	-14.46	MW gdp	44.332	648.59	a
1923	-7.53	MW gdp	44.563	634.51	a
1924	-2.09	MW gdp	44.886	580.88	a
1925	-0.26	MW gdp	45.040	584.58	a
1926	-0.42	MW gdp	45.218	566.01	a
1927	-1.94	MW gdp	45.432	532.30	a
1928	-0.89	MW gdp	45.622	558.68	a
1929	-0.84	MW gdp	45.731	541.52	a
1930	-0.84	MW gdp	45.889	543.10	a
1931	-1.83	MW gdp	46.074	600.08	a
1932	-2.24	MW gdp	46.335	644.30	a
1933	-1.39	MW gdp	46.520	590.15	a
1934	-0.87	MW gdp	46.666	558.92	a
1935	0.79	MW gdp	46.869	544.16	a
1936	0.9	MW gdp	47.081	560.30	a
1937	3.46	MW gdp	47.289	571.02	a
1938	2.36	MW gdp	47.494	619.04	a
1939	2.89	MW gdp	47.548	673.88	a
1940	11.13	MW gdp	46.029	716.93	a
1941	11.46	MW gdp	44.870	915.76	a
1942	7.49	MW gdp	44.323	1338.73	a
1943	4.44	MW gdp	48.262	1518.80	a
1944	5	MW gdp	48.460	1720.76	a
1945	1.64	MW gdp	48.669	1822.63	a
1946	2.81	MW gdp	48.988	1764.77	a
1947	9.08	MW gdp	49.539	1357.26	a
1948	6.34	MW gdp	50.033	1183.25	a
1949	3.19	MW gdp	50.331	1317.78	a
1950	1.34	MW gdp	50.382	1435.25	a
1951	8.55	MW gdp	50.287	1317.37	a
1952	7.11	MW gdp	50.429	1351.98	a
1953	1.83	MW gdp	50.593	1455.35	a
1954	1.13	MW gdp	50.765	1353.47	a
1955	4.91	MW gdp	50.946	1310.68	a
1956	7.05	MW gdp	51.184	1267.79	a
1957	4.08	MW gdp	51.430	1307.50	a
1958	3.7	MW gdp	51.653	1332.28	a
1959	0.76	MW gdp	51.956	1382.20	a
1960	1.11	MW gdp	52.373	1327.92	a
1961	3.88	MW gdp	52.807	1363.96	a
1962	3.65	MW gdp	53.292	1491.17	a
1963	1.55	MW gdp	53.625	1499.65	a
1964	3.77	MW gdp	53.991	1443.69	a
1965	6.05	MW gdp	54.350	1499.32	a
1966	5.42	MW gdp	54.643	1642.66	a
1967	3.03	MW gdp	54.959	1726.16	a
1968	4.44	MW gdp	55.214	1840.33	a
1969	6.75	MW gdp	55.461	1993.95	a
1970	9.92	MW gdp	55.632	2066.61	a
1971	8.57	MW gdp	55.928	2077.57	a
1972	7.9	MW gdp	56.097	2062.33	a
1973	9.39	MW gdp	56.223	1931.62	a
1974	15.8	MW gdp	56.236	1953.10	a
1975	25.7	MW gdp	56.226	2141.70	a
1976	16.02	MW gdp	56.216	2294.52	a
1977	14.17	MW gdp	56.190	2300.60	a
1978	12.31	MW gdp	56.178	2157.31	a
1979	14.98	MW gdp	56.240	2089.34	a
1980	19.69	MW gdp	56.330	2061.35	a
1981	12.31	MW gdp	56.358	2155.79	a
1982	8.16	MW gdp	56.291	2396.47	a
1983	5.78	MW gdp	56.316	2443.14	a
1984	5.34	MW gdp	56.409	2450.05	a
1985	5.63	MW gdp	56.554	2583.16	a
1986	4.6	MW gdp	56.684	2669.59	a
1987	5.82	MW gdp	56.804	2550.66	a
1988	6.47	MW gdp	56.916	2689.08	a
1989	8.21	MW gdp	57.077	2685.12	a
1990	8.58	MW gdp	57.238	2764.27	a
1991	6.64	MW gdp	57.439	2764.03	a
1992	3.29	MW gdp	57.585	2776.83	a
1993	3.07	MW gdp	57.714	2534.95	a
1994	1.91	MW gdp	57.862	2497.77	a
1995	2.68	MW gdp	58.025	2711.02	a
1996	4.24	MW gdp	58.164	2850.58	a
1997	-0.15	MW gdp	58.314	3018.55	a
1998	1.33	MW gdp	58.475	3308.81	a
1999	1.42	MW gdp	58.684	3519.68	a
2000	1.17	MW gdp	58.886	3738.87	a
2001	1.55	MW gdp	59.113	3939.65	a
2002	2.16	MW gdp	59.366	3876.89	a
2003	2.46	MW gdp	59.637	3728.19	a
2004	2.65	MW gdp	59.950	3765.74	a
2005	3.02	MW gdp	60.413	4005.82	a
2006	2.86	MW gdp	60.827	4309.73	a
2007	2.31	MW gdp	61.319	4498.37	a
2008	3.42	MW gdp	61.824	4631.68	a
2009	0.87	33,752	62.261	4395.27	a
2010	1.32	32,519	62.760	3947.18	a
2011	1.94	33,054	63.285	4125.50	a
2012	1.78	33,161	63.705	4024.49	a
2013	1.88	33,421	64.106	3863.88	a
2014	1.96	33,926	64.597	3870.22	a
2015	1.25	34,707	65.110	3961.65	a
2016	0.74	35,122	65.648	4079.17	a
2017	2.31	35,631	66.040	4245.34	a
Legend: a - actual outturn Data Sources for 1900: GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP Revenue: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics Data Sources for 2017: GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables Revenue: ONS PSF time series dataset Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank

back to chart |back to table | back to top

Category (max 7)	Sub-category	Central 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.						X

All Categories

£ billion	2025-26 forecast	2025-26 actual
Central Government	£1,071.9	£1,136.9
Local Authorities	£69.1	£70.1
Total UK Revenue	£1,141.0	£1,207.0

Analysis

Time Series Chart of UK Public Revenue

Use the table below to change the data series

Download Data File

Download Tab-delimited Data

View Data Series

Site Search

Top Links

Data Sources for 1900_2017:

UK Public Revenue Outturn -- March 2026

Quick Links

Masthead

Blog

Budget News

Analysis

History

Deficit

Debt

Headline

UK Revenue Details

Chart Galleries

Bar Charts

Pie Charts

Download Single Year

Download Data Series

Spending Data

Spending Charts

Analysis & History

FAQ

Blog by Year

Site Tour

Analysis

Time Series Chart of UK Public Revenue

Use the table below to change the data series

Download Data File

Download Tab-delimited Data

View Data Series

Site Search

Top Links

Data Sources for 1900_2017:

UK Public Revenue Outturn -- March 2026

Quick Links

Masthead

Blog

Budget News