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United States: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1790–2025 · 236 observations · cgovdebt

2025
31.6 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+5.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+7.7%a year

Central government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
202531,637,959
202429,953,342
202327,770,466
202226,376,358
202124,783,400
202019,781,559
201918,607,652
201817,236,336
201716,584,303
201615,752,087

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

United States documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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