Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments (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" was 290,478 USD million (annual rate) in December 2025, versus 290,024 in November 2025. This represents an increase of 0.16 percent.
Sample. This monthly time series has 804 observations in total. The time range covered by the series is from January 1959 to December 2025.
History. Here are a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: this national-accounts item had a mean value of 77,109 USD million; it reached a trough of 757 in January 1960; it reached a maximum of 292,088 in August 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollar million |
|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 289565.0 |
| 2025-11-30 | 290024.0 |
| 2025-12-31 | 290478.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments |
| 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 | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Personal current taxes (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Disposable personal income (personal income less personal current taxes) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Personal outlays (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Personal saving (disposable personal income less personal outlays) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
Personal income detail
Personal outlays detail
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal outlays: Personal consumption expenditures (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal interest payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To government (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To the rest of the world (net) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |