Regulatory Growth and Accumulation:

The volume of federal restrictions has steadily grown over time. In 1970 there were about 400 thousand restrictive words in the Code of Federal Regulations. Now, there are over 1 million. Explore the data behind the CFR’s growth and accumulation in the below interactive that uses our recently released RegData 3.2 data. For more information on how the data was collected, check out the RegData 3.2 documentation.