Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product | FRED

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Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product (GFDEGDQ188S)

Source: U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Release: Debt to Gross Domestic Product Ratios

Units: Percent of GDP, Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency: Quarterly

Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product (GFDEGDQ188S) was first constructed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in October 2012. It is calculated using Federal Government Debt: Total Public Debt (GFDEBTN) and Gross Domestic Product, 1 Decimal (GDP):
GFDEGDQ188S = ((GFDEBTN/1000)/GDP)*100
GFDEBTN/1000 transforms GFDEBTN from millions of dollars to billions of dollars.

Suggested Citation:

U.S. Office of Management and Budget and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product [GFDEGDQ188S], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S, May 6, 2024.

Federal government current expenditures: Interest payments (A091RC1Q027SBEA)

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Release: Gross Domestic Product

Units: Billions of Dollars, Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate

Frequency: Quarterly

BEA Account Code: A091RC

For more information about this series, please see http://www.bea.gov/national/.

Suggested Citation:

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Federal government current expenditures: Interest payments [A091RC1Q027SBEA], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA, May 6, 2024.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Release: Gross Domestic Product

Units: Billions of Dollars, Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate

Frequency: Quarterly

BEA Account Code: A191RC

Gross domestic product (GDP), the featured measure of U.S. output, is the market value of the goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States.For more information, see the Guide to the National Income and Product Accounts of the United States (NIPA) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Suggested Citation:

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Gross Domestic Product [GDP], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP, May 6, 2024.