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US federal deficit or surplus, monthly

Observed

Federal deficit (positive) or surplus (negative) for the calendar month, as the Monthly Treasury Statement signs it.

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
monthly
Ingested
never
1-year changeno observations ingested yet
10-year trendno observations ingested yet
Historical series

US federal deficit or surplus, monthly, 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 v1/accounting/mts/mts_table_1:current_month_dfct_sur_amt
Definition

What this measures

Current month deficit/surplus amount from the Monthly Treasury Statement table 1, Treasury Fiscal Data dataset mts_table_1, field current_month_dfct_sur_amt. The Treasury reports a deficit as a positive number. Monthly, US dollars.

Direction
contextual, not scored
Geography level
country
Slug
us-federal-deficit-monthly
Resilience

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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
v1/accounting/mts/mts_table_1:current_month_dfct_sur_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
no notes recorded
Ingestion rejects values outside -100,000,000,000,000 to 100,000,000,000,000 US dollars.
Revisions
no observations ingested yet