The latest official general government figures for Australia, as stored in Bullion API’s scheduled cache. Each figure shows its own period. Borrowing and interest are not offered. Cached, not live.
Each figure keeps the government scope and definition its publisher uses. Scopes, periods and definitions differ between countries and aggregates, so these figures are not comparable across geographies.
| Measure | Latest cached value | Period | Government scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| General-government gross debt (L2, annual)All Australia general-government gross L2 debt at 30 June, in millions of Australian dollars, valued at current market value using the creditor approach under Australian GFS (ABS methodology §§13.4–13.6 and 13.9: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/detailed-methodology-information/concepts-sources-methods/australian-system-government-finance-statistics-concepts-sources-and-methods/2015/13-treatment-selected-items/part-b-treatment-debt-australian-gfs), not at nominal or face value, as published in Australian Bureau of Statistics Government Finance Statistics, Annual, Table 14, "Matrix of gross public sector debt and other liabilities", row "Equals L2" and column "All Australia general government". L2 comprises debt securities, loans, SDRs, and currency and deposits; it excludes accounts payable, pensions and derivatives. This is gross L2 debt, not the net L2 measure in Table 16. | Unavailable: no cached observation | Not available | General government |
| General-government gross L2 debt to GDP (annual, Bullion API calculation)Bullion API calculation, not an ABS-published ratio: All Australia general-government gross L2 debt at 30 June, valued at current market value using the ABS creditor approach, divided by the sum of current-price original quarterly GDP for the four quarters in the matching July-to-June financial year, multiplied by 100. The numerator is ABS Government Finance Statistics, Annual Table 14 (row "Equals L2", column "All Australia general government"); the denominator is ABS Australian National Accounts SDMX series ANA_AGG version 1.0.0, key M3.GPM.10.AUS.Q. See the ABS debt valuation methodology (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/detailed-methodology-information/concepts-sources-methods/australian-system-government-finance-statistics-concepts-sources-and-methods/2015/13-treatment-selected-items/part-b-treatment-debt-australian-gfs). This is not the net L2 debt-to-GDP ratio shown in Table 16. The calculated value is stored to eight decimal places.Bullion API calculation using Australian Bureau of Statistics Government Finance Statistics, Annual and Australian National Accounts data. ABS website material is reused under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International subject to the exclusions and third-party rights in the ABS copyright terms (https://www.abs.gov.au/website-privacy-copyright-and-disclaimer#copyright-and-creative-commons); those terms require attribution to the ABS. The ABS does not endorse Bullion API. | Unavailable: no cached observation | Not available | General government |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, Annual (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/government/government-finance-statistics-annual) and Australian National Accounts (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/national-accounts/australian-national-accounts-national-income-expenditure-and-product), via the ABS Data API (https://data.api.abs.gov.au).
ABS website material is provided under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits commercial reuse, subject to the exclusions and third-party rights identified in the ABS copyright terms (https://www.abs.gov.au/website-privacy-copyright-and-disclaimer#copyright-and-creative-commons). Those terms require attribution to the ABS for material obtained from its website. This product uses the ABS Data API (Beta), whose availability and performance are not guaranteed and whose service may change. Bullion API is not endorsed by the ABS. ABS revises Government Finance Statistics regularly.
GET /v1/government-debt/au returns the latest stored observation for each supported category as decimal strings, with its scope, unit, period and definition. Each endpoint is available on every plan, including the free plan for non-commercial Service use.