Government Debt in the United States decreased to 36211469 USD Million in June from 36215818 USD Million in May of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Government Debt- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The United States recorded a Government Debt to GDP of 124.30 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2024. This dataset provides - United States Government Debt To GDP - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Summarizes the U.S. government's total outstanding debt at the end of each fiscal year from 1789 to the current year.

Total outstanding debt of the U.S. government reported daily. Includes a breakout of intragovernmental holdings (federal debt held by U.S. government) and debt held by the public (federal debt held by entities outside the U.S. government).

Graph and download economic data for Federal Debt: Total Public Debt (GFDEBTN) from Q1 1966 to Q1 2025 about public, debt, federal, government, and USA.

Households Debt in the United States decreased to 69.20 percent of GDP in the fourth quarter of 2024 from 70.50 percent of GDP in the third quarter of 2024. This dataset provides - United States Households Debt To Gdp- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Key information about United States Government Debt: % of GDP

• United States Government debt accounted for 124.0 % of the country's Nominal GDP in Dec 2024, compared with the ratio of 123.1 % in the previous quarter.
• US government debt to GDP ratio data is updated quarterly, available from Mar 1969 to Dec 2024.
• The data reached an all-time high of 130.4 % in Mar 2021 and a record low of 31.8 % in Sep 1974.

CEIC calculates quarterly Government Debt as % of Nominal GDP from monthly Government Debt and rolling sum of quarterly Nominal GDP. The Bureau of the Fiscal Service provides Government Debt in USD. The Bureau of Economic Analysis provides Nominal GDP in USD. Government Debt covers Central Government only.


Related information about United States Government Debt: % of GDP

• In the latest reports, US National Government Debt reached 36,220.2 USD bn in Jan 2025.
• The country's Nominal GDP reached 6,632.4 USD bn in Mar 2023.

The Debt to the Penny dataset provides information about the total outstanding public debt and is reported each day. Debt to the Penny is made up of intragovernmental holdings and debt held by the public, including securities issued by the U.S. Treasury. Total public debt outstanding is composed of Treasury Bills, Notes, Bonds, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), Floating Rate Notes (FRNs), and Federal Financing Bank (FFB) securities, as well as Domestic Series, Foreign Series, State and Local Government Series (SLGS), U.S. Savings Securities, and Government Account Series (GAS) securities. Debt to the Penny is updated at 3:00 PM EST each business day with data from the previous business day.

Private Debt to GDP in the United States decreased to 142 percent in 2024 from 147.50 percent in 2023. United States Private Debt to GDP - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on July of 2025.

External Debt in the United States increased to 28097015 USD Million in the first quarter of 2025 from 27629576 USD Million in the fourth quarter of 2024. This dataset provides - United States Net International Investment Position - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Key information about United States Household Debt

• United States Household Debt reached 18,036.0 USD bn in Dec 2024, compared with the reported number of 17,943.0 USD bn in the previous quarter
• US Household Debt: USD mn data is updated quarterly, available from Mar 1999 to Dec 2024
• The data reached an all-time high of 18,036.0 USD bn in Dec 2024 and a record low of 4,540.0 USD bn in Mar 1999

Federal Reserve Board of New York provides quarterly Household Debt in USD. Household Debt includes Mortgages, Home Equity Revolving, Auto Loans, Bankcards, Student Loans and Others.


Further information about United States Household Debt

• In the latest reports, United States Household Debt accounted for 61.7 % of the country's Nominal GDP in Dec 2024
• Money Supply M2 in United States increased 21,533.8 USD bn YoY in Dec 2024
• United States Foreign Exchange Reserves was measured at 34.9 USD bn in Dec 2024
• The Foreign Exchange Reserves equaled 0.1 Months of Import in Dec 2024
• United States Domestic Credit reached 30,648.3 USD bn in Mar 2024, representing an drop of 0.3 % YoY

The Interest Expense on Debt Outstanding dataset provides monthly and fiscal year-to-date values for interest expenses on federal government debt, that is, the cost to the U.S. for borrowing money (calculated at a specified rate and period of time). U.S. debt includes Treasury notes and bonds, foreign and domestic series certificates of indebtedness, savings bonds, Government Account Series (GAS), State and Local Government Series (SLGS) and other special purpose securities. While interest expenses are what the government pays to investors who loan money to the government, how much the government pays in interest depends on both the total federal debt and the interest rate investors charged when they loaned the money. This dataset is useful for those who wish to track the cost of maintaining federal debt.

This dataset has various calculations of debt burden. The data is represented as percentages and will be updated twice per year in the Preliminary and Executive Budgets.

United States Total State & Local Government: Debt Outstanding: Long Term data was reported at 2,962,577,609.000 USD th in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 2,940,196,127.000 USD th for 2014. United States Total State & Local Government: Debt Outstanding: Long Term data is updated yearly, averaging 292,302,088.000 USD th from Jun 1902 (Median) to 2015, with 73 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,962,577,609.000 USD th in 2015 and a record low of 2,007,000.000 USD th in 1902. United States Total State & Local Government: Debt Outstanding: Long Term data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.F008: Debt Outstanding: State and Local Government: By State.

This dataset provides the monthly total of gift contributions received by the U.S. Treasury that were donated to reduce the public debt. These donations can include money, outstanding government obligations, and property that is sold for cash.

Debt Balance Credit Cards in the United States decreased to 1.18 Trillion USD in the first quarter of 2025 from 1.21 Trillion USD in the fourth quarter of 2024. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for the United States Debt Balance Credit Cards.

United States US: Gross Public Debt: % of GDP: General Government: Long Term: Over 1 Year: Loans data was reported at 0.000 % in Mar 2018. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 % for Dec 2017. United States US: Gross Public Debt: % of GDP: General Government: Long Term: Over 1 Year: Loans data is updated quarterly, averaging 0.000 % from Mar 1995 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 93 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.000 % in Mar 1995 and a record low of 0.000 % in Mar 2018. United States US: Gross Public Debt: % of GDP: General Government: Long Term: Over 1 Year: Loans data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.World Bank: QPSD: Gross Public Debt: % of GDP: General Government.

United States US: Gross Public Debt: % of GDP: General Government: Long Term: Over 1 Year data was reported at 114.426 % in Mar 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 114.261 % for Dec 2017. United States US: Gross Public Debt: % of GDP: General Government: Long Term: Over 1 Year data is updated quarterly, averaging 71.488 % from Mar 1995 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 93 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 117.504 % in Jun 2016 and a record low of 54.257 % in Sep 2000. United States US: Gross Public Debt: % of GDP: General Government: Long Term: Over 1 Year data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.World Bank: QPSD: Gross Public Debt: % of GDP: General Government.

Analysis of ‘🪧 U.S. Presidents and Debt’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/yamqwe/u-s-presidents-and-debte on 13 February 2022.

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About this dataset

All U.S. presidents since WWII and their impact on the U.S. debt

This dataset lists each president's impact on the U.S. debt since World War II to the present (2016), starting with Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama. The data is presented in two different ways:

• By President - inclusive of all terms served
  • Lists the term debt increase percentage
• Annual breakdown - from 1949 to 2016
  • Lists the annual debt increase percentage

The data also includes some meta information such as the term periods and lifespan, age, and party of each president.

Source

This dataset was created by Kevin Nayar and contains around 0 samples along with Party, Date Died, technical information and other features such as: - Age - Party - and more.

How to use this dataset

• Analyze Date Died in relation to Age
• Study the influence of Party on Date Died
• More datasets

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit Kevin Nayar

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This paper models the behaviour of discounted US debt using a Markov-switching time series model. The significance of modelling fiscal policy within this framework derives from the implications it has for long-term sustainability. The two-regime framework used in this paper identifies periods where the present value of US Federal debt is expanding versus periods when it is collapsing. Using an updated data series from Hamilton and Flavin (1986), a test is conducted to establish if the expanding periods pose a threat to the long-run sustainability of fiscal policy. For the USA, it is found that they do not.