The latest official central government and public sector figures for United Kingdom, as stored in Bullion API’s scheduled cache. Each figure shows its own period. Cached, not live.
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UK public sector net debt excluding public sector banks (PSND ex): debt owed by the public sector to the UK private sector and overseas, less its liquid assets, at the end of each calendar month, in millions of pounds at current prices, not seasonally adjusted, as published by the ONS in Public sector finances (series KSE6). Includes the Bank of England. A positive value is net debt. Recent months are provisional and revised in later releases.
Scope: Public sector · Unit: gbp_millions · Frequency: monthly
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Observed coverage in this window: 2021-10-31 to 2026-08-31 (59 observations). 59 reported.
| Period end | Value | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-31 | £2,321,761.00 million | Reported |
| 2021-11-30 | £2,352,180.00 million | Reported |
| 2021-12-31 | £2,364,517.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-01-31 | £2,351,066.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-02-28 | £2,352,224.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-03-31 | £2,379,717.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-04-30 | £2,383,122.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-05-31 | £2,400,372.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-06-30 | £2,424,463.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-07-31 | £2,419,301.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-08-31 | £2,428,760.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-09-30 | £2,441,981.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-10-31 | £2,453,503.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-11-30 | £2,476,672.00 million | Reported |
| 2022-12-31 | £2,499,189.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-01-31 | £2,486,800.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-02-28 | £2,510,958.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-03-31 | £2,542,731.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-04-30 | £2,550,026.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-05-31 | £2,579,601.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-06-30 | £2,608,504.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-07-31 | £2,589,968.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-08-31 | £2,605,038.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-09-30 | £2,607,657.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-10-31 | £2,648,799.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-11-30 | £2,675,566.00 million | Reported |
| 2023-12-31 | £2,693,981.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-01-31 | £2,652,564.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-02-29 | £2,668,970.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-03-31 | £2,684,142.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-04-30 | £2,674,484.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-05-31 | £2,719,185.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-06-30 | £2,730,268.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-07-31 | £2,735,227.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-08-31 | £2,757,938.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-09-30 | £2,757,909.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-10-31 | £2,780,705.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-11-30 | £2,815,761.00 million | Reported |
| 2024-12-31 | £2,816,397.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-01-31 | £2,775,219.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-02-28 | £2,795,977.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-03-31 | £2,806,699.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-04-30 | £2,826,238.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-05-31 | £2,868,715.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-06-30 | £2,868,379.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-07-31 | £2,889,480.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-08-31 | £2,907,007.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-09-30 | £2,913,287.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-10-31 | £2,896,538.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-11-30 | £2,926,310.00 million | Reported |
| 2025-12-31 | £2,924,529.00 million | Reported |
| 2026-01-31 | £2,870,360.00 million | Reported |
| 2026-02-28 | £2,886,876.00 million | Reported |
| 2026-03-31 | £2,916,811.00 million | Reported |
| 2026-04-30 | £2,938,225.00 million | Reported |
| 2026-05-31 | £2,972,575.00 million | Reported |
| 2026-06-30 | £2,992,469.00 million | Reported |
| 2026-07-31 | £2,981,989.00 million | Reported |
| 2026-08-31 | £2,985,531.00 million | Reported |
GET /v1/government-debt/ukMacroCached 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 | United Kingdom This page | United States | Australia | Iceland | Euro area |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debt to GDP (monthly) | 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 | Not offered | Not offered |
| 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 | 88.90% of GDPGross debt to GDP, quarter end. Euro area (Eurostat aggregate EA21: the fixed composition of the 21 member states in the euro area from 2026, back-calculated for earlier periods): general-government consolidated gross debt at the end of the quarter as a percentage of gross domestic product, as published by Eurostat in its quarterly government debt data. A Eurostat-published ratio, not a Bullion API calculation. Recent quarters are published as provisional and revised later.General government; quarterly; At 31 Mar 2026 |
| Debt to GDP (annual) | 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 | 87.40% of GDPGross debt to GDP, year end. Euro area (Eurostat aggregate EA21: the fixed composition of the 21 member states in the euro area from 2026, back-calculated for earlier periods): general-government consolidated gross debt at 31 December as a percentage of gross domestic product at current market prices for that calendar year, as published by Eurostat in its annual Excessive Deficit Procedure notification data. A Eurostat-published ratio, not a Bullion API calculation.General government; annual; At 31 Dec 2025 |
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: 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.
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
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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.
Source: Eurostat, government finance statistics
Reuse of Eurostat statistical data for commercial or non-commercial purposes is authorised provided the source is acknowledged (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/main/help/copyright-notice). Bullion API is not endorsed by Eurostat.
| Measure | Latest cached value | Period | Government scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public sector net debtUK public sector net debt excluding public sector banks (PSND ex): debt owed by the public sector to the UK private sector and overseas, less its liquid assets, at the end of each calendar month, in millions of pounds at current prices, not seasonally adjusted, as published by the ONS in Public sector finances (series KSE6). Includes the Bank of England. A positive value is net debt. Recent months are provisional and revised in later releases. | £2,985,531.00 million | Public sector | |
| Public sector net debt to GDPUK 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. | 93.80% of GDP | Public sector |
| Measure | Latest cached value | Period | Government scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public sector net borrowing, monthUK public sector net borrowing excluding public sector banks (PSNB ex) in the calendar month, in millions of pounds at current prices, not seasonally adjusted, as published by the ONS in Public sector finances (series DZLS). A positive value is borrowing (a deficit); a negative value is a surplus. Recent months are provisional and revised in later releases. | £18,268.00 million | Public sector | |
| Public sector net borrowing, fiscal year to date (Bullion API calculation)Bullion API calculation, not an ONS-published series: the exact sum of ONS monthly UK public sector net borrowing excluding public sector banks (series DZLS) from 1 April, the start of the UK fiscal year, to the end of the reported month, in millions of pounds at current prices, not seasonally adjusted. A value is produced only when every month from April to that month is published; gaps are never filled. A positive value is borrowing (a deficit); a negative value is a surplus. It changes whenever ONS revises any month it includes.Bullion API calculation using Office for National Statistics Public Sector Finances data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. | £77,301.00 million | Public sector |
| Measure | Latest cached value | Period | Government scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central government debt interest payableUK central government debt interest payable in the calendar month, in millions of pounds at current prices, not seasonally adjusted, as published by the ONS in Public sector finances (series NMFX, central government current expenditure: net interest payable). Includes the capital uplift on index-linked gilts, which moves with the Retail Prices Index. A positive value is interest payable. | £8,808.00 million | Central government |
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.
GET /v1/government-debt/uk, GET /v1/government-borrowing/uk, GET /v1/debt-interest/uk 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.