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high 40.68 · low 2.99 · now 22.79 · 11 recessions shaded 2025
C28 · FISCAL SCALE
Federal net outlays as a percent of GDP
22.79
CONTEXT ROBUST DRS 95 annual as of 2025-01-01
A context tile: shown plainly, with no declared strain side, so it carries no state of its own.
The full history
How it is read
- What it measures
- fiscal scale
- Confidence
- ROBUST — a primary official series, mechanically reported.
- Reliability (DRS)
- DRS 95 — CONTEXT: the size of the federal government is a fact to show, not a strain to score.
Where it comes from
FRED ↗ Every number on this site is reproducible from this primary source.
Questions it helps answer
- Scale & Energy — How large is the state, and how self-supplied is the economy?