United States government debt, debt-to-GDP and borrowing

The latest official central government figures for United States, 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/usMacro

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Cached, not live.

Cached 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.

Latest cached macro figures by geography, with observation dates and definitions
MeasureUnited States This pageUnited KingdomAustraliaIcelandEuro area
Debt to GDP (quarterly)
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.
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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 (monthly)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
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Debt to GDP (annual)Not offeredNot 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.

U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

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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.

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.

Debt

MeasureLatest cached valuePeriodGovernment scope
Total public debt outstandingTotal federal public debt outstanding (debt held by the public plus intragovernmental holdings) at the end of each calendar quarter, in millions of U.S. dollars, as published by the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Service and distributed by FRED (series GFDEBTN).$39,462,398.00 millionCentral government
Debt held by the publicFederal debt held by the public, excluding intragovernmental holdings, at the end of each calendar quarter, in millions of U.S. dollars, as published by the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Service and distributed by FRED (series FYGFDPUN).$31,705,538.35 millionCentral government
Federal 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.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.121.19% of GDPCentral government

Borrowing

MeasureLatest cached valuePeriodGovernment scope
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-), monthFederal budget surplus (+) or deficit (-) for the calendar month, in millions of U.S. dollars, from the Monthly Treasury Statement as distributed by FRED (series MTSDS133FMS). A negative value is a deficit.-$166,796.95 millionCentral government
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-), fiscal year to date (Bullion API calculation)Bullion API calculation: the exact sum of the monthly federal budget surplus (+) or deficit (-) (FRED series MTSDS133FMS) from 1 October, the start of the federal fiscal year, to the end of the reported month, in millions of U.S. dollars. A value is produced only when every month from October to that month is published; gaps are never filled. A negative value is a deficit.Bullion API calculation using U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service data via FRED. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.-$1,965,627.82 millionCentral government

U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

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GET /v1/government-debt/us, GET /v1/government-borrowing/us 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.