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Time Series Chart of UK Public Revenue
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- 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.
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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.
| Year | Inflation | GDP-UK £ billion nominal | Population-UK million | Total Direct Revenue -total -total percent GDP | |
| 1970 | 9.92 | MW gdp | 55.632 | 37.97 | a |
| 1971 | 8.57 | MW gdp | 55.928 | 36.77 | a |
| 1972 | 7.9 | MW gdp | 56.097 | 35.11 | a |
| 1973 | 9.39 | MW gdp | 56.223 | 32.43 | a |
| 1974 | 15.8 | MW gdp | 56.236 | 32.34 | a |
| 1975 | 25.7 | MW gdp | 56.226 | 33.28 | a |
| 1976 | 16.02 | MW gdp | 56.216 | 35.39 | a |
| 1977 | 14.17 | MW gdp | 56.190 | 35.75 | a |
| 1978 | 12.31 | MW gdp | 56.178 | 34.25 | a |
| 1979 | 14.98 | MW gdp | 56.240 | 32.12 | a |
| 1980 | 19.69 | MW gdp | 56.330 | 33.34 | a |
| 1981 | 12.31 | MW gdp | 56.358 | 35.49 | a |
| 1982 | 8.16 | MW gdp | 56.291 | 38.15 | a |
| 1983 | 5.78 | MW gdp | 56.316 | 37.82 | a |
| 1984 | 5.34 | MW gdp | 56.409 | 37.40 | a |
| 1985 | 5.63 | MW gdp | 56.554 | 36.49 | a |
| 1986 | 4.6 | MW gdp | 56.684 | 36.32 | a |
| 1987 | 5.82 | MW gdp | 56.804 | 34.25 | a |
| 1988 | 6.47 | MW gdp | 56.916 | 33.27 | a |
| 1989 | 8.21 | MW gdp | 57.077 | 32.93 | a |
| 1990 | 8.58 | MW gdp | 57.238 | 32.56 | a |
Legend: Data Sources for 1970: Data Sources for 1990: | |||||
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Data Sources for 1970_1990:
Sources for 1970:
GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Revenue: ONS PSF time series dataset
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics
Sources for 1990:
GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Revenue: ONS PSF time series dataset
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank
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On April 23, 2026 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its annual Public Sector Finances report. On April 30, 2026 we updated ukpublicrevenue.co.uk with the new public finance data.
| £ 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 |
Revenue outturn data comes from the Office for National Statistics' March 2026 Public Sector Finances report using a spreadsheet file pusf.csv labeled "Public sector finances time series". Outturn revenue data for ukpublicrevenue.co.uk now extends from 1692 to 2025-26.
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