Government datasets

Daily total outstanding U.S. public debt reported to the exact penny, including debt held by the public and intragovernmental holdings. The primary source for national debt tracking.

Federal government receipts, outlays, and deficit/surplus by month from October 1980 to present. Sourced from FRED's Monthly Treasury Statement series (MTSR133FMS, MTSO133FMS, MTSDS133FMS). The official data used in federal budget tracking and fiscal policy analysis. Values in millions of dollars.

Every person and entity sanctioned by the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), including cartel leaders designated under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Act. Covers sanctions programs for narcotics trafficking (SDNTK, SDNT), terrorism, weapons proliferation, and more. Updated daily. Includes primary entity records, addresses, aliases, and extended remarks across four linked files joined by entity number. The SDN list is the US government's primary tool for economic sanctions enforcement.

Net migration (immigrants minus emigrants) by country from World Bank Development Indicators. Five-year estimates covering 266 countries and regions from 1962 to present. Useful for analyzing whether immigration offsets fertility decline in aging populations.

Annual U.S. federal debt outstanding from 1790 to present, the longest continuous fiscal record published by the U.S. government. One row per fiscal year with the total debt in dollars as of the end of the fiscal year. Sourced from the Treasury Fiscal Data API.

Persons naturalized (granted US citizenship) by region and country of birth from the DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics. Covers fiscal years 2014 to 2023 with counts for over 200 countries and territories. Published annually by the Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS). Based on N-400 naturalization application data for persons aged 18 and over. Includes regional aggregates and country-level detail.

All registered political committees (PACs, Super PACs, party committees, candidate committees) filed with the Federal Election Commission, covering the 2008 through 2026 election cycles. Contains committee ID, name, type, party affiliation, treasurer, connected organization, and linked candidate. Reference table for joining with contribution and expenditure data.

FDA Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (Orange Book). Lists all FDA-approved prescription and OTC drugs with patent, exclusivity, and therapeutic equivalence data. Updated monthly.

Headline U.S. national health expenditure (NHE) figures by year, 1960 to the latest CMS release: total spending, per capita spending, annual percent change, percent distribution, and NHE as a share of gross domestic product, plus the U.S. population and GDP figures CMS uses as denominators. From CMS National Health Expenditure Accounts Table 1 (NHE summary including share of GDP). National health expenditures grew from $27.1 billion ($146 per person, 5.0% of GDP) in 1960 to $5.3 trillion ($15,474 per person, 18.0% of GDP) in 2024. Long format: one row per year, category, and measure. Categories are National Health Expenditures and its components (Health Consumption Expenditures, which splits into Personal Health Care, Government Administration and Net Cost of Health Insurance, and Government Public Health Activities; and Investment), plus U.S. Population and Gross Domestic Product. Check the unit column: amounts are billions of dollars, per capita amounts are dollars per person, population is millions of people. Annual percent change starts in 1961. CMS revises prior years with each annual release.

Individual-level ICE arrest records from October 2022 to early 2026, processed by the Deportation Data Project at UCLA. Covers 713K arrest events with details on apprehension type, location, citizenship, criminality classification, and case status. Originally obtained through FOIA requests to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Published under CC-0 (public domain) license.

Medicare Part B payment allowance limits for physician-administered drugs, including cancer infusions, immunotherapies, and vaccines. Based on Average Sales Price (ASP) methodology. Updated quarterly by CMS. Contains HCPCS codes, dosage units, payment limits, and coinsurance rates. Among the most expensive drugs in the healthcare system.

Links federal candidates to their authorized committees for the 2023-2024 election cycle. Each row connects a candidate ID to a committee ID with the committee's type and designation. Essential join table for tracing money flow from committees back to specific candidates.

Healthcare financing structure by country from the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED). Shows how countries fund healthcare through four indicators: total health spending as share of GDP, and the split between government, private, and out-of-pocket financing as shares of total health expenditure. The US spends far more of GDP on healthcare than peers but has a relatively low government share. Government and private shares should approximate 100% (excluding external funding). Out-of-pocket is a subset of private spending.

U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) encounter data from the DHS Office of Homeland Security Statistics. Monthly counts of border encounters broken down by citizenship, border sector, region, and family status from fiscal year 2000 to present. Covers apprehensions, expulsions, and Title 8/Title 42 processing outcomes at the southwest, northern, and coastal borders.

Loan-level data for SBA 7(a) guaranteed loans from 2010 to present, published under FOIA. Each row is an individual loan with borrower location, NAICS industry, approval amount, lender, and loan status (including charge-offs/defaults). Over 1 million loans across two decade files. Source URLs contain date stamps that change on SBA refresh.

Fentanyl seizure data from DHS (CBP + ICE) disruption operations covering FY2023-2024. Includes fentanyl weight (lbs), pill press seizures, US currency, and personal property seized. Broken down by fiscal year, month, and US region (Southwest, North, Southeast, OCONUS). Note: the source URL contains a date stamp (2025-04) and will change when DHS posts updates.

All federal candidates registered with the Federal Election Commission, covering the 2008 through 2026 election cycles. Contains candidate ID, name, party, state, office sought, district, incumbent/challenger status, and principal campaign committee. Reference table for joining with expenditure and contribution data. One row per candidate per cycle, not per candidate: the FEC restates a candidate's party, status and address each cycle, so cand_id repeats and joins on it alone fan out. Filter on cycle, or join on (cand_id, cycle), to get one row per candidate.

Health insurance claims denials, appeal rates, and outcomes from the CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File, 2017-2026. Tracks how often ACA marketplace insurers deny claims, why they deny them, and what happens when consumers appeal. Covers Individual QHP, Stand-Alone Dental (SADP), and SHOP market segments. Key metrics include denial rates, internal/external appeal overturn rates, and denial reasons (out-of-network, not medically necessary, services excluded, referral required). Useful for identifying insurers with high denial rates, tracking the "give up" rate where patients don't appeal, and comparing appeal success rates across states and plans.

Global drug seizure data (2015-2023) from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime World Drug Report statistical annexes (2021 and 2025 editions). Covers 100+ countries with seizure quantities in kilograms broken down by drug group, subgroup, and specific drug name. Tracks how fentanyl and synthetic opioids have spread globally, not just in North America. Note: annex URLs are version-specific and will need updating when the next edition publishes.

Employer-level H-1B petition data from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. Each row represents a unique employer-fiscal year combination with counts of initial and continuing approvals and denials. Includes employer name, location (city, state, ZIP), NAICS industry code, and tax ID. Data covers fiscal year 2023 from the most recent archived export.