U.S. National Debt Tracker

Total federal debt = debt held by the public + intragovernmental holdings. Debt held by the public includes Federal Reserve holdings; it does not mean only foreign-held debt. Federal debt is a stock and differs from the annual budget deficit. This tracker does not include every U.S. state, local or private-sector liability.

The source is normally updated at the end of each U.S. business day with the previous business day’s data. Weekends, holidays and publication delays may leave the last observation unchanged. The observation date and the time of the last successful verification are shown separately. This is published data, not a continuously ticking debt estimate.

All chart periods use monthly line charts: 1 year, 5 years, 10 years and All. Each point uses the last available observation in that calendar month; the latest month may be partial. Debt amounts are not averaged. Missing observations remain gaps. Hover anywhere, tap or use arrow keys to inspect the selected month and its actual observation date. Positive changes are green, negative changes red and zero changes neutral; colours show direction, not whether debt growth is desirable. Absolute debt amounts retain their series colour. Change from prior month compares the displayed observation with the preceding calendar month’s last available observation.

About 1 month and About 1 year use the latest observation on or before the corresponding calendar date, with a maximum seven-day gap. The comparison date is disclosed. Previous record compares the two most recent published dates; it is not necessarily a one-calendar-day change. A change in debt is not the same as a budget deficit.

Total-debt history begins in April 1993. The component breakdown is intermittent before April 2005. Missing component observations remain unavailable. If official components differ from the total by more than $1, their values are excluded for that date while the official total is retained; the CSV identifies the exclusion. The bundled history contains one such excluded breakdown on August 4, 2025. Small differences up to $1 are retained as source rounding differences.

Source requests use the free public FiscalData API without an API key. Recent 400-day observations are checked twice daily and the full history weekly. A delayed source check can queue a background retry; page rendering and the public data endpoint do not download upstream data. WordPress Cron depends on site traffic unless a server cron runs it. Failed checks preserve saved data. Technical diagnostics are available only in the WordPress administration. All charts and exports are generated locally; the browser contacts only this website.

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