Title: Gross Federal Debt Held by the Public as Percent of Gross Domestic Product Series ID: FYPUGDA188S Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, The White House: Office of Management and Budget Release: Debt to Gross Domestic Product Ratios (Not a Press Release) Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Annual Units: Percent of GDP Date Range: 1939-01-01 to 2012-01-01 Last Updated: 2013-04-19 4:01 PM CDT Notes: Gross Federal Debt Held by the Public as Percent of Gross Domestic Product (FYPUGDA188S) was first constructed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in January 2013. It is calculated using Gross Federal Debt (FYGFDPUB) and Gross Domestic Product (GDPA): FYPUGDA188S= (FYGFDPUB/GDPA)*100 DATE VALUE 1939-01-01 44.90239 1940-01-01 42.20907 1941-01-01 38.04262 1942-01-01 41.87770 1943-01-01 64.35045 1944-01-01 84.07643 1945-01-01 105.47085 1946-01-01 108.86589 1947-01-01 91.88857 1948-01-01 80.37904 1949-01-01 80.20210 1950-01-01 74.56588 1951-01-01 63.15945 1952-01-01 59.94976 1953-01-01 57.57975 1954-01-01 59.01682 1955-01-01 54.64191 1956-01-01 50.80018 1957-01-01 47.56018 1958-01-01 48.43750 1959-01-01 46.32846 1960-01-01 44.98480 1961-01-01 43.75918 1962-01-01 42.34250 1963-01-01 41.11363 1964-01-01 38.69801 1965-01-01 36.26756 1966-01-01 33.47721 1967-01-01 32.02787 1968-01-01 31.82018 1969-01-01 28.25071 1970-01-01 27.27535 1971-01-01 26.89031 1972-01-01 26.04411 1973-01-01 24.66180 1974-01-01 22.92097 1975-01-01 24.10087 1976-01-01 26.16464 1977-01-01 27.04793 1978-01-01 26.46700 1979-01-01 24.99024 1980-01-01 25.53352 1981-01-01 25.24626 1982-01-01 28.42125 1983-01-01 32.17620 1984-01-01 33.24938 1985-01-01 35.73918 1986-01-01 39.02603 1987-01-01 39.89950 1988-01-01 40.22430 1989-01-01 39.96096 1990-01-01 41.57573 1991-01-01 44.87575 1992-01-01 47.29672 1993-01-01 48.72064 1994-01-01 48.45452 1995-01-01 48.61154 1996-01-01 47.63794 1997-01-01 45.27267 1998-01-01 42.31648 1999-01-01 38.83466 2000-01-01 34.26418 2001-01-01 32.27236 2002-01-01 33.26724 2003-01-01 35.12233 2004-01-01 36.23885 2005-01-01 36.37962 2006-01-01 36.09874 2007-01-01 35.89142 2008-01-01 40.60525 2009-01-01 53.99214 2010-01-01 62.20403 2011-01-01 67.18229 2012-01-01 71.92377