U.S. state and local governments devoted 30.7 percent of their budgets to healthcare and social services in 2015, up from 27.6 percent in 2005, Market Watch reports.
Here is how the composition of state and local budgets is expected to change by 2025:
2005
1. Education: 32.9 percent
2. Healthcare and social services: 27.6 percent
3. Transportation/public safety/environment and housing: 22.6 percent
4. Administration: 10.2 percent
5. Interest on general debt: 3.8 percent
6. Pension contributions: 2.9 percent
7. Estimated catch-up pension contribution: 0 percent
2015
8. Education: 31.3 percent
9. Healthcare and social services: 30.7 percent
10. Transportation/public safety/environment and housing: 21 percent
11. Administration: 9.2 percent
12. Pension contributions: 4.4 percent
13. Interest on general debt: 3.5 percent
14. Estimated catch-up pension contribution: 0 percent
2025 (estimated)
15. Healthcare and social services: 38.3 percent
16. Education: 27.3 percent
17. Transportation/public safety/environment and housing: 18.2 percent
18. Administration: 8 percent
19. Estimated catch-up pension contribution: 5.1 percent
20. Interest on general debt: 3.1 percent
21. Pension contributions: 0 percent
*Percentages represent the share of combined state and local budgets.