Official data
United States: public debt by year, 2001–2025
General government gross debt, % of GDP
Latest year, 2025: 124.4%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare public debt as a share of GDP since 2001 across United States, China, Mexico, and Brazil.
Method
Official annual series (2001–2025), read directly from the source without adjustments and plotted as published.
- Read. Reads series GGXWDG_NGDP directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2001 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws the series as a line and marks the latest year.
- The most recent years can be IMF estimates.
- Source
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
- Series code
- GGXWDG_NGDP
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 124.4 |
| 2024 | 122.3 |
| 2023 | 120 |
| 2022 | 119.2 |
| 2021 | 125 |
| 2020 | 132.6 |
| 2019 | 108.8 |
| 2018 | 107.7 |
| 2017 | 106.5 |
| 2016 | 107.5 |
| 2015 | 105.5 |
| 2014 | 105 |
| 2013 | 105 |
| 2012 | 103.7 |
| 2011 | 100 |
| 2010 | 95.7 |
| 2009 | 87.1 |
| 2008 | 73.9 |
| 2007 | 65 |
| 2006 | 64.5 |
| 2005 | 65.8 |
| 2004 | 66.4 |
| 2003 | 59 |
| 2002 | 55.9 |
| 2001 | 53.5 |