Trump by Numbers

How fast consumer prices are rising: the change in the Consumer Price Index (all items) over the past 12 months.

Grocery (food-at-home) prices compared with a year earlier, seasonally adjusted.

The US average retail price of regular gasoline, per gallon.

Growth of the economy: the quarter-on-quarter change in inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP), annualized.

The share of people who want a job and are actively looking but cannot find one (the standard U-3 rate), seasonally adjusted.

Typical pay for full-time workers after inflation: median usual weekly earnings in constant (1982-84) dollars.

The number of federal civilian employees, including the Postal Service, from the monthly jobs report.

Customs duties (tariffs) collected so far this fiscal year, which resets each October. Shown both gross and net of refunds.

The average tariff actually paid at the border: gross customs duties as a share of the value of goods imported that month.

How much more the US imports than it exports each month, across goods and services.

The total amount the federal government owes: total public debt outstanding.

How much more the government has spent than it has collected so far this fiscal year (resets each October).

Interest the government has paid on the national debt so far this fiscal year (resets each October).

The average residential price of electricity, in cents per kilowatt-hour (US city average).

US crude oil pumped from wells, in millions of barrels per day.

The share of US utility-scale electricity generated from renewable sources: hydro, wind, solar, geothermal and biomass.

The number of times US authorities encountered someone at the southwest land border each month.

People removed (deported) from the US this fiscal year, as recorded in ICE's published statistics workbook.

The average number of people held in ICE detention at any given time this fiscal year.

The share of people in ICE detention who have no criminal conviction, using ICE's own categories.

The number of people who have died while in ICE detention, from ICE's own death-reporting page.

The number of refugees formally admitted to the US this fiscal year, from the State Department's monthly report.

Estimated US drug overdose deaths over the most recent 12 months, from provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

Confirmed measles cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this year.

The number of people enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), from state reports.

Veterans' disability-compensation claims that have waited more than 125 days for a decision (the VA's backlog definition).

The number of executive orders the president has signed since taking office, from the Federal Register.

Lifetime federal judges (Article III) confirmed by the Senate this term, from the Federal Judicial Center.

The share of the public that approves of the president's job performance, averaged from recent national polls. Opinion data, not an official government statistic.

Pardons and commutations the president has granted this term, from the Department of Justice's grants page.

New national emergencies the president has declared under the National Emergencies Act this term.

Money spent by the Department of Defense on military programs so far this fiscal year (pay, operations, procurement and research).

Federal money committed to international affairs (budget function 150): development and humanitarian aid, security assistance, diplomacy and contributions to international organizations.

Reports the president has sent to Congress this term under the War Powers Resolution, the official record of US military action abroad.

US military deaths in the current named operations, both hostile and non-hostile, from the Defense Casualty Analysis System.