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US total public debt outstanding

Observed

Total public debt outstanding of the US federal government, 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 total public debt outstanding, World

Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
1 geographies have observations for this metric
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Treasury Fiscal Data API, series v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny:tot_pub_debt_out_amt
Definition

What this measures

Total public debt outstanding (debt held by the public plus intragovernmental holdings), from the Treasury Fiscal Data dataset Debt to the Penny, field tot_pub_debt_out_amt. Daily on business days, US dollars. Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

Direction
contextual, not scored
Geography level
country
Slug
us-federal-debt-total
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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:tot_pub_debt_out_amtlast fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
License review required
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
Terms of use
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
Not revised after publication.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 1,000,000,000,000,000 US dollars.
Revisions
no observations ingested yet