US federal interest expense, monthly
ObservedInterest expense on the US public debt for the month, all categories combined.
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 interest expense, monthly, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
Interest expense on the public debt outstanding for the calendar month, from the Treasury Fiscal Data dataset Interest Expense on the Public Debt Outstanding, field month_expense_amt. The dataset publishes one line per security category (accrued interest, amortized discount and premium, savings bonds, government account series); the value stored here is the sum of every line the Treasury publishes for the month, which is the total the Treasury itself reports. Monthly, US dollars.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-federal-interest-expense-monthly
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/interest_expense:month_expense_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
- Sum of all published lines for the record month; the line count is stored in row metadata. Not revised after publication.Ingestion rejects values outside -10,000,000,000,000 to 10,000,000,000,000 US dollars.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet