Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To government (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Personal income and its disposition
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to national-accounts data for the United States published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the item "Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To government" was 150,003 USD million (annual rate) in November 2025, versus 149,544 in October 2025. This marks a gain of 0.31 percent.
Sample. The monthly series plotted above has 803 observations. The time period covered by the series extends from January 1959 to November 2025.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: this national-accounts item recorded a maximum of 150,262 USD million in August 2025; it hit a trough of 309 in January 1960; it had a mean value of 42,706.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollar million |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 149092.0 |
| 2025-10-31 | 149544.0 |
| 2025-11-30 | 150003.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To government |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Nominal aggregate |
| Seasonally adjusted | Yes |
| Deflation method | Current prices |
| Rescaling | Annual rate |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | US dollar million |
| Source | Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) |
| Source type | National statistical agency |
| Data licence | Open data |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | SM1 |
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Top-level items
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal income (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 803 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-11-30 |
| Personal current taxes (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 803 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-11-30 |
| Disposable personal income (personal income less personal current taxes) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 803 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-11-30 |
| Personal outlays (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 803 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-11-30 |
| Personal saving (disposable personal income less personal outlays) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 803 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-11-30 |
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Personal outlays detail
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal outlays: Personal consumption expenditures (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 803 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-11-30 |
| Personal outlays: Personal interest payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 803 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-11-30 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 803 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-11-30 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To government (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 803 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-11-30 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To the rest of the world (net) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 803 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-11-30 |