United States Government Debt
United States government debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 115.77%.
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United States · government debt data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
United States recorded 115.77% for Government Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 1.03 percentage points, from 114.73% to 115.77%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (107.63%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 96.14% in 2015 and the high was 124.51% in 2020.