US National Debt — At a Glance

Every headline figure on one screen, live from the US Treasury.

US National Debt

$40,047,726,949,770

live estimate · last official figure $40,047,726,949,770 for September 10, 2026, plus the growth measured across 90 days of reported data · method

Debt per citizen$117,172

Debt per taxpayer$310,930

Growth per second$107,734

Growth per day$9.3B

Per citizen$117,172341.8 million people

Per income-taxpayer$310,930128.8 million filers

Per household$302,933132.2 million households

Per worker$244,940163.5 million employed

Interest per citizen$4,047per year, at current rates

US population341,784,8572025

How fast it grows

Per second$107,734

Per minute$6,464,065

Per hour$388M

Per day$9.3B

Per year, at this pace$3.40 trillionmeasured over 90 days

Added in 12 months$2.60 trillion6.9% · from $37.5T

Federal budget — FY 2026

Receipts, fiscal YTD$4.85 trillioneverything collected

Outlays, fiscal YTD$6.81 trillioneverything spent

Deficit, annualised$2.14 trillion$67,948 a second

Borrowed share of spending29%of every dollar spent

Interest, annualised$1.38 trillionmore than defence

Interest / federal revenue26%the squeeze metric

Average rate paid3.490%Aug 31, 2026

Inflation, year on year3.4%August 2026

Scale and structure

Debt to GDP130.2%higher than in 1945

Gross domestic product$30.77 trillion2025

Held by the public$32.36 trillion81% — investors, funds, foreign states, the Fed

Intragovernmental$7.68 trillion19% — owed to its own trust funds

Who it is owed to81% public · 19% intragovernmental

Priced in things that cannot be printed

Gold$4,350per troy ounce

Silver$64.62per troy ounce

Gold / silver ratio67.3oz of silver per oz of gold

Bitcoin$76,604market cap $1.54 trillion

Debt in gold9.2 billion ozto clear it at today's price

Debt in silver619.7 billion ozmore silver than has ever been mined

Debt in bitcoin522.8 million25× everything that will ever exist

US gold reserve covers2.84%all 261.5 million official oz

Next milestone

Next round trillion$45 trillionprojected February 24, 2028

Still to borrow$4.95 trillionbefore that line

Days at this pace532about 1.5 years

Already passed$40 trillionand still climbing