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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’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 1950 to 1970
YearInflationGDP-UK
£ billion nominal
Population-UK
million
Total Direct Revenue -total -total
£ billion nominal
19501.34MW gdp50.3825.27a
19518.55MW gdp50.2875.46a
19527.11MW gdp50.4295.88a
19531.83MW gdp50.5936.20a
19541.13MW gdp50.7656.34a
19554.91MW gdp50.9466.59a
19567.05MW gdp51.1847.04a
19574.08MW gdp51.4307.53a
19583.7MW gdp51.6537.92a
19590.76MW gdp51.9568.32a
19601.11MW gdp52.3738.37a
19613.88MW gdp52.8078.91a
19623.65MW gdp53.2929.98a
19631.55MW gdp53.62510.45a
19643.77MW gdp53.99111.06a
19656.05MW gdp54.35012.26a
19665.42MW gdp54.64313.85a
19673.03MW gdp54.95915.04a
19684.44MW gdp55.21416.62a
19696.75MW gdp55.46119.08a
19709.92MW gdp55.63221.28a

Legend:
a - actual outturn

Data Sources for 1950:
GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Revenue: ONS PSF time series dataset
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

Data Sources for 1970:
GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Revenue: ONS PSF time series dataset
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

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On March 11, 2026 we updated UK revenue forecast data for 2025-26 to 2030-31 from the Office of Budget Responsibility's March 2025 Economic and fiscal outlook report  in a zip file labeled "March 2026 Economic and fiscal outlook - charts and tables (zip file)" and a spreadsheet file named "efo-march-2026-charts-and-tables-annex-tables.xlsx" and Table A.5: Current Receipts in tab "TA.5".

UK Government Revenue Forecast
2025-26 ForecastMarch 2025
£ billion
March 2026
£ billion
Central Government£1,157.6£1,071.1
Local Authorities£71.4£67.9
Total UK Revenue£1,229.0£1,139.0

On March 11, 2026 we updated UK deficit forecast data for 2025-2065 to 2030-31 from the Office of Budget Responsibility's March 2026 Economic and fiscal outlook report Table 6.5 Components of Net Borrowing in tab "6.5" in a zip file labeled "March 2026 Economic and fiscal outlook - detailed forecast tables: aggregates" and a spreadsheet file named "efo-march-2026-detailed-forecast-tables-aggregates.xlsx".

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