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At the end of the 1st quarter of 2021, the United States public debt-to-GDP ratio was 127.5%. [4] Two-thirds of US public debt is owned by US citizens, banks, corporations, and the Federal Reserve Bank; [5] approximately one-third of US public debt is held by foreign countries – particularly China and Japan.
According to the OECD, general government gross debt (federal, state, and local) in the United States in the fourth quarter of 2015 was $22.5 trillion (125% of GDP); subtracting out $5.25 trillion for intragovernmental federal debt to count only federal "debt held by the public" gives 96% of GDP.
The United States public debt as a percentage of GDP reached its peak during Harry Truman's first presidential term, amidst and after World War II. It rapidly declined in the post-World War II period , reaching a low in 1973 under President Richard Nixon .
Publicly held debt is projected to reach 122.4% of GDP by 2034, up from 97.3% last year. Gundlach said that Washington has been plagued by large budget deficits since the 1980s, but these were ...
The United States: A Growing Debt Mountain The U.S. accounts for the largest portion of the global debt at 34.6%. ... China is the second-largest contributor to global government debt at 16.1%. In ...
In fact, you’d have to go back to 1837 to find the last time the United States was debt-free. Texas was still an independent republic and only 26 states existed.
Since 1946, the federal government's debt-to-GDP ratio has since fallen by nearly half, to 54.8% of GDP in 2009. The debt-to-GDP ratio of the financial sector, by contrast, has increased from 1.35% in 1946 to 109.5% of GDP in 2009. The ratio for households has risen nearly as much, from 15.84% of GDP to 95.4% of GDP. [2]
[1]: 81 A debt instrument is a financial claim that requires payment of interest and/or principal by the debtor to the creditor in the future. Examples include debt securities (such as bonds and bills), loans, and government employee pension obligations. [1]: 207 Net debt equals gross debt minus financial assets that are debt instruments.