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US National Debt — At a Glance

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US National Debt

$40,582,274,254,844

live estimate · last official figure $40,582,274,254,844 for October 27, 2026, plus the growth measured across 90 days of reported data · method

Debt per citizen$118,736
Debt per taxpayer$315,080
Growth per second$100,650
Growth per day$8.7B

Every American's share

Per citizen$118,736341.8 million people
Per income-taxpayer$315,080128.8 million filers
Per household$306,976132.2 million households
Per worker$248,210163.5 million employed
Interest per citizen$3,980per year, at current rates
US population341,784,8572025

How fast it grows

Per second$100,650
Per minute$6,039,009
Per hour$362M
Per day$8.7B
Per year, at this pace$3.18 trillionmeasured over 90 days
Added in 12 months$2.54 trillion6.7% · from $38.0T

Federal budget — FY 2026

Receipts, fiscal YTD$5.40 trillioneverything collected
Outlays, fiscal YTD$7.40 trillioneverything spent
Deficit, annualised$1.99 trillion$63,138 a second
Borrowed share of spending27%of every dollar spent
Interest, annualised$1.36 trillionmore than defence
Interest / federal revenue25%the squeeze metric
Average rate paid3.531%Sep 30, 2026
Inflation, year on year3.7%September 2026

Scale and structure

Debt to GDP131.9%higher than in 1945
Gross domestic product$30.77 trillion2025
Held by the public$32.68 trillion81% — investors, funds, foreign states, the Fed
Intragovernmental$7.90 trillion19% — owed to its own trust funds
Who it is owed to81% public · 19% intragovernmental

Priced in things that cannot be printed

Gold$4,022per troy ounce
Silver$52.56per troy ounce
Gold / silver ratio76.5oz of silver per oz of gold
Bitcoin$79,960market cap $1.61 trillion · Data provided by CoinMarketCap.com
Debt in gold10.1 billion ozto clear it at today's price
Debt in silver772.2 billion ozmore silver than has ever been mined
Debt in bitcoin507.5 million24× everything that will ever exist
US gold reserve covers2.59%all 261.5 million official oz

Next milestone

Next round trillion$45 trillionprojected March 18, 2028
Still to borrow$4.42 trillionbefore that line
Days at this pace508about 1.4 years
Already passed$40 trillionand still climbing

Sources. US Treasury — Debt to the Penny, Monthly Treasury Statement, Interest Expense, Average Interest Rates. World Bank — GDP and population. US Bureau of Labor Statistics — CPI. Metal prices: gold-api.com. Cryptocurrency prices: Data provided by CoinMarketCap.com. Live figures are estimates between official Treasury publications; the underlying official figure and its date are stated above. Full method and every source at nationaldebtfacts.com/methodology.

About this page

Most pages here answer one question. This one answers all of them on a single printable sheet: the debt, the deficit, the interest, the per-person breakdown, and the same numbers priced in gold. It is built for the reader who wants to check a figure before quoting it, which is why every value carries its source and the date it was published, and why the whole page can be copied with its citation line attached.

If you are a journalist, a teacher or a student, this is the page to screenshot. If you want the story behind one number, the links under it go to the page where that number is explained.

Written and reviewed by Roman & Team. Last reviewed October 16, 2026.