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Constituents of US Debt

The Fiscal Data API from the US Treasury provides us an easy way to see how the US debt is distributed.

The US debt has been growing steadily for decades as shown in the chart below:


The table below lets you explore the breakdown of debt for a given month and year:

Type
Amount ($ B)
% of total
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Note that the Fiscal Data API does not provide data before 2001.