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.

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.

This scatter chart displays inflation (annual %) against central government debt (% of GDP) in Germany. The data is about countries per year.

Brazil Federal Public Debt: Inflation Linked data was reported at 1,113.273 BRL bn in Apr 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,097.484 BRL bn for Mar 2019. Brazil Federal Public Debt: Inflation Linked data is updated monthly, averaging 509.944 BRL bn from Jan 2004 (Median) to Apr 2019, with 184 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,113.273 BRL bn in Apr 2019 and a record low of 99.886 BRL bn in Jan 2004. Brazil Federal Public Debt: Inflation Linked data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Treasury Secretariat. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Government and Public Finance – Table BR.FC001: Federal Public Debt: Held by the Public. This data is part of the Monthly Report of Federal Public Debt from National Treasury. Displays information about emissions, redemptions, stock, maturity profile and average cost to the Federal Public Debt, including both the internal and external debts, responsibility of the National Treasury market.

What are the effects of a higher central bank inflation target on the burden of real public debt? Several recent proposals have suggested that even a moderate increase in the inflation target can have a pronounced effect on real public debt. We consider this question in a New Keynesian model with a maturity structure of public debt and an imperfectly observed inflation target. We find that moderate changes in the inflation target only have significant effects on real public debt if they are essentially permanent. Moreover, the additional benefits of not communicating a change in the inflation target are minor.

Iceland Government Debt: Domestic: Marketable: Inflation Linked Treasury Bonds data was reported at 206,180.000 ISK mn in Oct 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 205,687.000 ISK mn for Sep 2018. Iceland Government Debt: Domestic: Marketable: Inflation Linked Treasury Bonds data is updated monthly, averaging 64,633.000 ISK mn from May 2000 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 220 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 206,180.000 ISK mn in Oct 2018 and a record low of 13,037.000 ISK mn in Nov 2007. Iceland Government Debt: Domestic: Marketable: Inflation Linked Treasury Bonds data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Government Debt Management . The data is categorized under Global Database’s Iceland – Table IS.F010: Central Government Debt . Since April 2010, securities issued by the Treasury of Iceland have been standardise the names in accordance with whether or not they are inflation-indexed to coordinate them with common usage abroad. Treasury Bonds is now called Indexed (Inflation-Linked) Bonds.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Federal Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product (GFDGDPA188S) from 1939 to 2023 about gross, debt, federal, GDP, and USA.

In September 2023, the national debt of the United States had risen up to 33.17 trillion U.S. dollars. The national debt per capita had risen to 85,552 U.S. dollars in 2021. As represented by the statistic above, the public debt of the United States has been continuously rising.

U.S. public debt Public debt, also known as national and governmental debt, is the debt owed by a nations’ central government. In the case of the U.S., national debt is owed by the federal government to Treasury security holders. Generally speaking, government debt increases with government spending, and can be decreased through taxes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government increased spending significantly to finance virus infrastructure, aid, and various forms of economic relief.

International public debt

Venezuela leads the global ranking of the 20 countries with the highest public debt in 2021. In relation to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Venezuela's public debt amounted to around 306.95 percent of GDP. Eritrea was ranked fifth, with an estimated debt of 170 percent of the Gross Domestic Product.

The national debt of the United Kingdom is forecasted to grow from 87 percent in 2022 to 70 percent in 2027, in relation to the Gross Domestic Product. These figures include England, Wales, Scotland as well as Northern Ireland.

Greece had the highest national debt among EU countries as of the 4th quarter of 2020 in relation to the Gross Domestic Product. Germany ranked 13th in the EU, with its national debt amounting to 69 percent of GDP in the same time period.

Tuvalu was one of the 20 countries with the lowest national debt in 2021 in relation to the GDP, while Macao had an estimated level of national debt of zero percent, the lowest of any country. The data refer to the debts of the entire state, including the central government, the provinces, municipalities, local authorities and social insurance.

Global public debt increased steadily since 2010, almost doubling from 2010 to 2023. Global public debt in the United States alone stood at ** trillion dollars. The rising global public debt is driven by increasing inflation and slowing economic growth.

In 2023, the gross federal debt in the United States amounted to around ****** U.S. dollars per capita. This is a moderate increase from the previous year, when the per capita national debt amounted to about ****** U.S. dollars. The total debt accrued by the U.S. annually can be accessed here. Federal debt of the United States The level of national debt held by the United States government has risen sharply in the years following the Great Recession. Federal debt is the amount of debt the federal government owes to creditors who hold assets in the form of debt securities. As with individuals and consumers, there is a common consensus among economists that holding debt is not necessarily problematic for government so long as the public debt is held at a sustainable level. Although there is no agreed upon ratio of debt to gross domestic product, the increasing debt held by the Federal Reserve has become a major part of the political discourse in the United States. Politics and the national debt In recent years, debate over the debt ceiling has been of concern to domestic politicians, the owners of federal debt, and global economy as a whole. The debt ceiling is a legislated maximum amount that national debt can reach intended to impose a degree of fiscal prudence on incumbent governments. However, as national debt has grown the debt ceiling has been reached, thus forcing legislative action by Congress. In both 2011 and 2013, new legislation was passed by Congress allowing the debt ceiling to be raised. The Budget Control Act of 2011 and the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 successively allowed the government to avoid defaulting on national debt and therefore avert a potential economic crisis.

This scatter chart displays inflation (annual %) against central government debt (% of GDP) in Japan. The data is about countries per year.

Sweden Central Govt Debt: NI: Inflation Linked: Inflation-Linked Bonds data was reported at 182,767.340 SEK mn in Nov 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 182,339.340 SEK mn for Oct 2018. Sweden Central Govt Debt: NI: Inflation Linked: Inflation-Linked Bonds data is updated monthly, averaging 187,767.074 SEK mn from Aug 2004 (Median) to Nov 2018, with 172 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 226,661.877 SEK mn in Sep 2008 and a record low of 161,567.290 SEK mn in Dec 2012. Sweden Central Govt Debt: NI: Inflation Linked: Inflation-Linked Bonds data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Swedish National Debt Office. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Sweden – Table SE.F012: Central Government Debt: Swedish National Debt Office.

Brazil Federal Public Debt: Domestic: Maturities: Inflation Linked: Over 5 years data was reported at 462.537 BRL bn in Apr 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 453.051 BRL bn for Mar 2019. Brazil Federal Public Debt: Domestic: Maturities: Inflation Linked: Over 5 years data is updated monthly, averaging 157.284 BRL bn from Dec 1999 (Median) to Apr 2019, with 233 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 522.456 BRL bn in Jul 2017 and a record low of 11.640 BRL bn in Nov 2000. Brazil Federal Public Debt: Domestic: Maturities: Inflation Linked: Over 5 years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Treasury Secretariat. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Government and Public Finance – Table BR.FC011: Federal Public Debt: Held by the Public: Domestic: by Maturities: Indexing Factor. This data is part of the Monthly Report of Federal Public Debt from National Treasury. Displays information about emissions, redemptions, stock, maturity profile and average cost to the Federal Public Debt, including both the internal and external debts, responsibility of the National Treasury market.

Argentina recorded a Government Debt to GDP of 88.40 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2023. This dataset provides - Argentina Government Debt To GDP - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The long-term interest rate on government debt is a key indicator of the economic health of a country. The rate reflects financial market actors' perceptions of the creditworthiness of the government and the health of the domestic economy, with a strong and robust economic outlook allowing governments to borrow for essential investments in their economies, thereby boosting long-term growth.

The Euro and converging interest rates in the early 2000s

In the case of many Eurozone countries, the early 2000s were a time where this virtuous cycle of economic growth reduced the interest rates they paid on government debt to less than 5 percent, a dramatic change from the pre-Euro era of the 1990s. With the outbreak of the Global Financial Crisis and the subsequent deep recession, however, the economies of Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland were seen to be much weaker than previously assumed by lenders. Interest rates on their debt gradually began to rise during the crisis, before rapidly increasing beginning in 2010, as first Greece and then Ireland and Portugal lost the faith of financial markets.

The Eurozone crisis

This market adjustment was initially triggered due to revelations by the Greek government that the country's budget deficit was much larger than had been previously expected, with investors seeing the country as an unreliable debtor. The crisis, which became known as the Eurozone crisis, spread to Ireland and then Portugal, as lenders cut-off lending to highly indebted Eurozone members with weak fundamentals. During this period there was also intense speculation that due to unsustainable debt loads, some countries would have to leave the Euro currency area, further increasing the interest on their debt. Interest rates on their debt began to come back down after ECB Chief Mario Draghi signaled to markets that the central bank would intervene to keep the states within the currency area in his famous "whatever it takes" speech in Summer 2012.

The return of higher interest rates in the post-COVID era

Since this period of extremely high interest rates on government debt for these member states, the interest they are charged for borrowing has shrunk considerably, as the financial markets were flooded with "cheap money" due to the policy measures of central banks in the aftermath of the financial crisis, such as near-zero policy rates and quantitative easing. As interest rates have risen to combat inflation since 2022, so have the interest rates on government debt in the Eurozone also risen, however, these rises are modest compared to during the Eurozone crisis.

Sweden Central Govt Debt: Treasury Bonds: ow Inflation Linked Bonds data was reported at 209,874.000 SEK mn in Oct 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 208,132.000 SEK mn for Sep 2018. Sweden Central Govt Debt: Treasury Bonds: ow Inflation Linked Bonds data is updated monthly, averaging 0.000 SEK mn from Jan 1970 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 586 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 227,047.000 SEK mn in Sep 2008 and a record low of 0.000 SEK mn in Dec 1994. Sweden Central Govt Debt: Treasury Bonds: ow Inflation Linked Bonds data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Sweden. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Sweden – Table SE.F011: Central Government Debt: Statistics Sweden.

This dataset is about countries per year in St. Kitts and Nevis. It has 64 rows. It features 4 columns: country, central government debt, and inflation.

The statistic shows the national debt of Japan from 2020 to 2023, with projections up until 2030. The amount of Japan's national debt in 2023 amounted to about 9.91 trillion U.S. dollar. In a ranking of debt to GDP per country, Japan is thus currently ranked first. Japan's economic power With one of the largest gross domestic products (GDP), Japan is among the largest economies in the world. However, ever since the global financial crisis, Japan's GDP - like many others - has been slightly unstable; Japan even reported a negative GDP growth in comparison to the previous year in 2011 and in 2014. Still, it is estimated that gross domestic product in Japan will continue to thrive over the next decade. One indicator is Japan's inflation rate: Despite the aforementioned economic slumps, Japan has managed to maintain one of the lowest inflation rates in the world, and it also reduced its unemployment rate. Between 2010 and 2013, the unemployment rate in Japan decreased by approximately one percent, and it is expected to drop even lower over the next years. Recently, Japan has been reporting a trade deficit, meaning the value of its imports exceeds the value of its exports. Most of these imports have come from China and the United States. The trade deficit is one of the causes for in an increase of the national debt. It is estimated that the national debt in relation to the GDP will increase further until 2020.

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.

This statistic shows the national debt in the member states of the European Union in the second quarter of 2024. The data refer to the entire state and are comprised of the debts of central government, provinces, municipalities, local authorities and social security. In the second quarter of 2024, Greece's national debt amounted to about 369.4 billion euros. National debt in the EU member states National or government debt is the debt owed by a central government. No country in the European Union is debt-free, although some are able to manage their debts better than others. Debt is influenced by the economic situation of a country, factors such as unemployment, the rate of inflation or the trade figures have a significant impact on its extent, and are, in turn, influenced by the national debt. The economic crisis has hit some EU countries harder than others; Spain, Ireland and Greece especially have been struggling economically since 2008. Greece’s national debt has skyrocketed over the past few years, and the same can be said about Spain and Ireland. Other EU countries, like France and the United Kingdom have been affected as well, albeit not as severely. The national debt of a country can be reduced by applying several measures: money can be borrowed (for example in the form of rescue packages), austerity programs can be enforced, taxes can be increased or central banks can inject liquidity into the economy through the implementation of quantitative easing policies. Some critics of the policy claim that this could lead to a higher level of inflation, which, if severe enough, could have a detrimental impact on living standards.