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government

  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

    FEMA disaster declarations by designated area

    Every FEMA disaster declaration summary from OpenFEMA (DisasterDeclarationsSummaries v2, https://www.fema.gov/api/open/v2), one row per declaration x designated area. Each row carries the declaration type (DR major disaster, EM emergency, FM fire management, FP fire suppression), incident type, declaration and incident dates, fiscal year declared, which assistance programs were authorized (Individuals and Households, Individual Assistance, Public Assistance, Hazard Mitigation), state, county FIPS and FEMA region. Method: keyless GET with OData paging ($top=1000, deterministic $orderby=disasterNumber,designatedArea); volatile API-internal fields (id, hash, lastRefresh) are excluded so snapshots only change when the data changes. Units: none (categorical + dates); program flags are booleans. Caveats: ongoing incidents have null end/closeout dates until FEMA closes them; FEMA can amend historical records; declaration_title is free-text incident names. Coverage: U.S. states, territories and tribal nations, 1953 to present, per designated area. Provenance: FEMA OpenFEMA API - citation required, see license. Primary key: (fema_declaration_string, designated_area). Join keys: state_code, declaration_year. Cadence: refreshed daily; a new snapshot appears only when the data changes. Sample use: count declarations by state_code and declaration_year for disaster frequency trends; filter incident_type for hazard-specific series.

    • government
    • natural-hazards
    • disaster
    • us
    rows
    70,377
    Quality
    92
    Updated
    Sep 23, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    License unclear

  • IMF DataMapper

    General government gross debt

    Gross debt consists of all liabilities that require payment or payments of interest and/or principal by the debtor to the creditor at a date or dates in the future. This includes debt liabilities in the form of SDRs, currency and deposits, debt securities, loans, insurance, pensions and standardized guarantee schemes, and other accounts payable. Thus, all liabilities in the GFSM 2001 system are debt, except for equity and investment fund shares and financial derivatives and employee stock options. Debt can be valued at current market, nominal, or face values (GFSM 2001, paragraph 7.110).

    • debt
    • fiscal
    • government
    • imf
    rows
    8,113
    Quality
    93
    Updated
    Sep 21, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    License unclear

  • IMF Fiscal-Balance Signals (derived)

    IMF fiscal-balance signals (government net lending/borrowing)

    Annual fiscal-balance signals from the IMF DataMapper (1980 -> latest WEO vintage, projections kept as published): general government net lending/borrowing as % of GDP for ~229 economies, with 10-year changes, OLS trend slopes, 3-sigma anomaly flags, 5-year extrapolation forecasts, 10-year balance z-scores and stance gauges: deficit, large-deficit and surplus flags, the fiscal impulse (1-year balance change) and a consolidation flag. The fiscal-flow lens — the balance companion to the debt stock in imf-global-debt-signals. Raw indicator: International Monetary Fund DataMapper.

    • fiscal
    • deficit
    • surplus
    • government
    rows
    7,698
    Quality
    91
    Updated
    Sep 22, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    License unclear

  • USAspending.gov

    Federal spending by awarding agency, by fiscal year

    Federal spending by awarding (top-tier) agency from USAspending.gov, the official U.S. federal spending open-data source operated by the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service under the DATA Act (https://api.usaspending.gov). Each row is one agency in one fiscal year: total obligated amount and total outlays in USD, aggregated over prime awards (spending_level=awards). Method: keyless POST to /api/v2/search/spending_by_category with category=awarding_agency and one time_period filter per fiscal year (Oct 1 - Sep 30) for the five most recent fiscal years; the window rolls forward automatically when a new fiscal year starts (October 1). Units: USD. Caveats: the current fiscal year is incomplete and is revised as agencies report; prime awards only (sub-awards excluded to avoid double counting). Coverage: U.S. federal agencies, fiscal years FY-4 through FY (currently 2022-2026), annual granularity. Provenance: USAspending.gov keyless API, U.S. public domain - please cite USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury. Primary key: (fiscal_year, agency_code). Cadence: refreshed daily; a new snapshot appears only when agency totals change. Sample use: order by amount_usd desc within a fiscal year for the largest awarding agencies.

    • government
    • spending
    • federal-budget
    • fiscal
    rows
    387
    Quality
    100
    Updated
    Sep 23, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    Commercial use OK