# United States Total public debt outstanding (Treasury, USD)

United States Total public debt outstanding (Treasury, USD) was up 6.7% year on year in Q3 2026, compared with 9.0% in Q2 2026.
The level stood at 40,175,641,071,634 US$.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from 2.4% (Q2 2017) to 20.2% (Q2 2020), averaging 7.5%.

- Source agency: U.S. Treasury FiscalData
- Makrognosis code: `US.GGDEBT.Q.NOM`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: US$
- Coverage: 1996-03-01 to 2026-09-01 (123 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/united-states/total-public-debt-outstanding-treasury-usd

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q3 2026 | 40,175,641,071,634 US$ | 6.7 |
| Q2 2026 | 39,462,398,380,774 US$ | 9.0 |
| Q1 2026 | 39,065,421,393,641 US$ | 7.8 |
| Q4 2025 | 38,514,009,184,233 US$ | 6.3 |
| Q3 2025 | 37,637,553,494,936 US$ | 6.1 |
| Q2 2025 | 36,217,480,035,223 US$ | 4.0 |
| Q1 2025 | 36,222,989,450,274 US$ | 4.7 |
| Q4 2024 | 36,218,605,311,690 US$ | 6.5 |
| Q3 2024 | 35,464,673,929,172 US$ | 6.9 |
| Q2 2024 | 34,831,634,431,393 US$ | 7.7 |
| Q1 2024 | 34,598,187,991,363 US$ | 10.0 |
| Q4 2023 | 34,001,493,655,565 US$ | 8.2 |
| Q3 2023 | 33,167,334,044,723 US$ | 7.2 |
| Q2 2023 | 32,332,274,184,763 US$ | 5.8 |
| Q1 2023 | 31,461,290,165,585 US$ | 3.5 |
| Q4 2022 | 31,419,689,421,558 US$ | 6.1 |
| Q3 2022 | 30,936,075,214,882 US$ | 8.4 |
| Q2 2022 | 30,568,582,029,059 US$ | 7.1 |
| Q1 2022 | 30,400,959,928,181 US$ | 8.1 |
| Q4 2021 | 29,617,214,856,052 US$ | 6.7 |
| Q3 2021 | 28,533,223,139,069 US$ | 5.9 |
| Q2 2021 | 28,529,435,873,140 US$ | 7.8 |
| Q1 2021 | 28,132,570,303,600 US$ | 18.8 |
| Q4 2020 | 27,747,797,947,668 US$ | 19.6 |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/US.GGDEBT.Q.NOM"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/US.GGDEBT.Q.NOM",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```