US debt held by the public
ObservedFederal debt held by the public, to the penny, on each business day.
Ingestedfrom U.S. Department of the TreasuryfreshJSON export
Current value, World
no observations ingested yet
- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- none
- Unit
- US dollars
- Frequency
- daily
- Ingested
- never
1-year changeno observations ingested yet
10-year trendno observations ingested yet
Historical series
US debt held by the public, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
Debt held by the public from the Treasury Fiscal Data dataset Debt to the Penny, field debt_held_public_amt. Daily on business days, US dollars.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-federal-debt-held-by-public
Resilience
Related metrics
Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Treasury Fiscal Data API
- Series ID
v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny:debt_held_public_amtlast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov
- License and attribution
- License review requiredU.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
- Last source update
- not recorded(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 10:04 UTC
- Parser version
- treasury-fiscal-data/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- no notes recordedIngestion rejects values outside 0 to 1,000,000,000,000,000 US dollars.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet