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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 (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.
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 add data series at same government level, this item will be shown as Remaining Revenue.

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.

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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.

Total Direct Revenue
Fiscal Years 1823 to 1843
YearInflationGDP-UK
£ million nominal
Population-UK
million
Total Direct Revenue -total
£ million nominal
18231.59MW gdp21.58659.90a
18241.99MW gdp21.88658.50a
18258.29MW gdp22.18959.70a
1826-7.04MW gdp22.49757.70a
1827-3.53MW gdp22.80955.20a
1828-0.31MW gdp23.12554.70a
1829-4.18MW gdp23.44556.50a
1830-0.8MW gdp23.77055.30a
1831-4.61MW gdp24.10054.50a
1832-0.75MW gdp24.36650.60a
1833-3.15MW gdp24.63651.10a
18342.75MW gdp24.90850.20a
1835-0.41MW gdp25.18350.40a
18365.79MW gdp25.46250.00a
1837-1.8MW gdp25.74352.60a
18380.41MW gdp26.02850.40a
18391.89MW gdp26.31551.30a
1840-4.16MW gdp26.60651.80a
1841-1.5MW gdp26.90051.60a
1842-4.29MW gdp26.95952.50a
1843-3.49MW gdp27.01951.10a

Legend:
a - actual outturn

Data Sources for 1823:
GDP: data from measuringworth.com (but now unsupported)
Revenue: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

Data Sources for 1843:
GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Revenue: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

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Data Sources for 1823_1843:

Sources for 1823:

GDP: data from measuringworth.com (but now unsupported)
Revenue: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

Sources for 1843:

GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Revenue: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

> revenue data sources for other years

On July 23, 2025, HM Treasury published its Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) for 2025. ukpublicspending.co.uk uses the PESA tables of public spending at the "sub-function" level as its major data source for UK public spending.

ukpublicspending.co.uk has now updated its spending tables using data from PESA 2025. The update includes outturn spending data for 2023-24, and plans data for 2024-25. ukpublicspending.co.uk uses PESA's Table 6.4 for Central Government expenditure, Table 7.4 for Local Authority expenditure, and Table 8.3 for Public Corporation capital expenditure.

Since HM Treasury does not provide plans estimates for future Local Authority spending, ukpublicspending.co.uk provides "guesstimates" instead. This is done by extending the percentage increase in spending between 2023-24 and 2024-25 for each sub-function for the plans year. It is assumed that local authority spending reductions will not carry through to plans years.

Country and Region spending has been updated up to 2023-24. These are obtained from Chapters 9 and 10 in the PESA document.

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