The latest official general government figures for Switzerland, as stored in Bullion API’s scheduled cache. Each figure shows its own period. Interest is 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.
GET /v1/government-debt/chMacroCached observations, not live. Each value keeps its own date and definition. Government scopes and debt definitions differ. Only debt-to-GDP ratios are shown; monetary amounts in different currencies are excluded.
5 of 5 geographies have cached values for the measures shown.
| Measure | Switzerland This page | United States | United Kingdom | Australia | Iceland |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debt to GDP (annual) | 23.74% of GDPMaastricht-style debt to GDP, year end. Switzerland: the Maastricht-style debt above as a percentage of nominal GDP at 31 December, as published by the Federal Finance Administration (variable `schuldenquote`, "Debt Ratio (Maastricht)"), which it defines as gross debt per the Maastricht definition over nominal GDP. The Administration publishes it as a fraction and Bullion API multiplies it by 100 to express percent, with no other change. The Administration does not document the source or vintage of the GDP series it uses. Only years the Federal Finance Administration labels as accounts (`Rechnung`) are stored, never its forecast years, and an actual year can be revised in a later release. Provided by the Federal Finance Administration without verification of the derived series (EMBAG Art. 10(6)).General government; annual; At 31 Dec 2024 | Not offered | Not offered | 51.75% of GDPGeneral-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.General government; annual; At 30 Jun 2025; 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. | 88.25% of GDPstatice gross debt to gdp annual. Iceland: general-government total liabilities at 31 December as a Statistics Iceland-published percentage of annual GDP (THJ05181). Includes pension/insurance liabilities and payables; not Maastricht debt and not a Bullion API calculation. Full PX decimal precision.General government; annual; At 31 Dec 2025 |
| Debt to GDP (quarterly) | Not offered | 121.19% of GDPFederal debt to GDP (Bullion API calculation). Bullion API calculation: total public debt outstanding at the end of the quarter divided by that quarter’s nominal GDP at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, multiplied by 100. Not a Treasury, FRED or BEA published ratio. This product uses the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Data API but is not endorsed or certified by BEA. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.Central government; quarterly; 1 Apr 2026 to 30 Jun 2026; Bullion API calculation using U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service data via FRED and U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data. This product uses the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Data API but is not endorsed or certified by BEA. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Debt to GDP (monthly) | Not offered | Not offered | 93.80% of GDPPublic sector net debt to GDP. UK public sector net debt excluding public sector banks as a percentage of gross domestic product at the end of each calendar month, not seasonally adjusted, as published by the ONS in Public sector finances (series HF6X). The ONS denominator is GDP for the 12 months centred on the month, which includes projected GDP for months not yet published, so recent ratios are revised as outturn GDP arrives. This is the ONS-published ratio, not a Bullion API calculation.Public sector; monthly; At 31 Aug 2026 | Not offered | Not offered |
Unavailable means no cached observation is held. Not offered means no registered series exists for that measure. Dates may differ; older observations have not been updated to a common period.
Source: Swiss Federal Finance Administration (EFV/FFA), "Main aggregates and forecasts with FS- and GFS-Model", https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/hauptaggregate-und-prognosen-im-fs-und-gfs-modell
Published as open government data under the opendata.swiss "Open use" terms (https://opendata.swiss/en/terms-of-use#terms_open), which permit commercial use and recommend citing the source. Provided by the Swiss Federal Finance Administration without verification of the derived series; Bullion API is not endorsed by the Federal Finance Administration.
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The underlying U.S. Treasury data is a U.S. federal government work; Bullion API is not endorsed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
This product uses the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Data API but is not endorsed or certified by BEA.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Public Sector Finances.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Monthly, not seasonally adjusted; ONS revises earlier months in each monthly release.
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.
Source: Statistics Iceland, general government finances, THJ05181 and THJ05121.
CC BY 4.0 (https://www.statice.is/publications/open-data-access/). Full PX decimal precision; debt includes pension/insurance liabilities and payables and is not Maastricht debt. Bullion API is not endorsed by Statistics Iceland; modifications are not attributed to Statistics Iceland.
| Measure | Latest cached value | Period | Government scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross debt, IMF definition, year endSwitzerland: general-government gross debt as defined by the IMF at 31 December, in millions of Swiss francs, from the Federal Finance Administration's GFS-model main aggregates (variable `fremdkapital`, "Gross debt excluding financial derivatives (debt as defined by IMF)"). The Administration describes it as total liabilities less shares and other equity, financial derivatives and employee stock options, with tradable liabilities at market value. Gross, not net, and a different measure from the Maastricht-style debt. Only years the Federal Finance Administration labels as accounts (`Rechnung`) are stored, never its forecast years, and an actual year can be revised in a later release. Provided by the Federal Finance Administration without verification of the derived series (EMBAG Art. 10(6)). | CHF 347,852.34 million | General government | |
| Maastricht-style debt, year endSwitzerland: general-government gross debt "with reference to the Maastricht definition" (the Administration's workbook label) at 31 December, in millions of Swiss francs, from the Federal Finance Administration's GFS-model main aggregates (variable `maastricht_schuld`, "Maastricht debt"). The Administration describes it as cash and deposits, debt securities and loans on the liabilities side of the GFS balance sheet, valued at nominal value and not market value, and it is a different measure from the IMF-definition gross debt. Eurostat publishes no Swiss debt and Bullion API has not verified that this equals the Eurostat excessive-deficit-procedure debt, so do not treat the two as equivalent. Only years the Federal Finance Administration labels as accounts (`Rechnung`) are stored, never its forecast years, and an actual year can be revised in a later release. Provided by the Federal Finance Administration without verification of the derived series (EMBAG Art. 10(6)). | CHF 204,391.83 million | General government | |
| Maastricht-style debt to GDP, year endSwitzerland: the Maastricht-style debt above as a percentage of nominal GDP at 31 December, as published by the Federal Finance Administration (variable `schuldenquote`, "Debt Ratio (Maastricht)"), which it defines as gross debt per the Maastricht definition over nominal GDP. The Administration publishes it as a fraction and Bullion API multiplies it by 100 to express percent, with no other change. The Administration does not document the source or vintage of the GDP series it uses. Only years the Federal Finance Administration labels as accounts (`Rechnung`) are stored, never its forecast years, and an actual year can be revised in a later release. Provided by the Federal Finance Administration without verification of the derived series (EMBAG Art. 10(6)). | 23.74% of GDP | General government |
| Measure | Latest cached value | Period | Government scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net lending (+) or borrowing (-), yearSwitzerland: general-government net lending (+) or net borrowing (-) in the IMF GFSM 2014 model (revenue less expense less the net acquisition of non-financial assets) for the calendar year, in millions of Swiss francs, from the Federal Finance Administration's GFS-model main aggregates (variable `saldo`, "Net lending/borrowing"). A negative value is net borrowing (a deficit); a positive value is net lending (a surplus). It is not the national FS-model "Overall fiscal balance". Only years the Federal Finance Administration labels as accounts (`Rechnung`) are stored, never its forecast years, and an actual year can be revised in a later release. Provided by the Federal Finance Administration without verification of the derived series (EMBAG Art. 10(6)). | CHF 2,480.03 million | General government |
Source: Swiss Federal Finance Administration (EFV/FFA), "Main aggregates and forecasts with FS- and GFS-Model", https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/hauptaggregate-und-prognosen-im-fs-und-gfs-modell
Published as open government data under the opendata.swiss "Open use" terms (https://opendata.swiss/en/terms-of-use#terms_open), which permit commercial use and recommend citing the source. Provided by the Swiss Federal Finance Administration without verification of the derived series; Bullion API is not endorsed by the Federal Finance Administration.
GET /v1/government-debt/ch, GET /v1/government-borrowing/ch 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.