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Treasury

The size and cost of the national debt, from a public fiscal service.

Sources

gov_fiscal

Entities

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Metrics

National debt

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Total public debt outstanding (daily); add ?series=true for the full daily history.

unitusd cadencedaily shapeobject GET /v1/data/absurd_economy/treasury/national_debt methodology →

Average interest rate on marketable debt

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Average interest rate on total marketable government debt (monthly); add ?series=true for history.

unitpercent cadencemonthly shapeobject GET /v1/data/absurd_economy/treasury/avg_interest_rate methodology →

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