Title: Gross Federal Debt Held by the Public as Percent of Gross Domestic Product Series ID: FYPUGDA188S Source: U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 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 2023-01-01 Last Updated: 2024-03-28 8:07 AM CDT Notes: Gross Federal Debt Held by the Public as Percent of Gross Domestic Product (FYPUGDA188S) (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYPUGDA188S) was first constructed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in January 2013. It is calculated using Gross Federal Debt (FYGFDPUB) (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYGFDPUB) and Gross Domestic Product (GDPA) (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPA): FYPUGDA188S = (FYGFDPUB/GDPA)*100 DATE VALUE 1939-01-01 44.30793 1940-01-01 41.59418 1941-01-01 37.27505 1942-01-01 40.85519 1943-01-01 62.92963 1944-01-01 82.33570 1945-01-01 103.15473 1946-01-01 106.31331 1947-01-01 89.85802 1948-01-01 78.80700 1949-01-01 78.64942 1950-01-01 73.04212 1951-01-01 61.77323 1952-01-01 58.47428 1953-01-01 56.11251 1954-01-01 57.48318 1955-01-01 53.25775 1956-01-01 49.44887 1957-01-01 46.26202 1958-01-01 47.02543 1959-01-01 44.99151 1960-01-01 43.65927 1961-01-01 42.40416 1962-01-01 41.06491 1963-01-01 39.84626 1964-01-01 37.51863 1965-01-01 35.13456 1966-01-01 32.41892 1967-01-01 31.00148 1968-01-01 30.77656 1969-01-01 27.32861 1970-01-01 26.38584 1971-01-01 26.01193 1972-01-01 25.20503 1973-01-01 23.91650 1974-01-01 22.24246 1975-01-01 23.42567 1976-01-01 25.48292 1977-01-01 26.37588 1978-01-01 25.81648 1979-01-01 24.37072 1980-01-01 24.91507 1981-01-01 24.61459 1982-01-01 27.65127 1983-01-01 31.29577 1984-01-01 32.37061 1985-01-01 34.73859 1986-01-01 38.00743 1987-01-01 38.92310 1988-01-01 39.17930 1989-01-01 38.83132 1990-01-01 40.44175 1991-01-01 43.66586 1992-01-01 46.00536 1993-01-01 47.36272 1994-01-01 47.11114 1995-01-01 47.17956 1996-01-01 46.25348 1997-01-01 43.97875 1998-01-01 41.05898 1999-01-01 37.71504 2000-01-01 33.26325 2001-01-01 31.37046 2002-01-01 32.39423 2003-01-01 34.15892 2004-01-01 35.15946 2005-01-01 35.21843 2006-01-01 34.95328 2007-01-01 34.78666 2008-01-01 39.29014 2009-01-01 52.11124 2010-01-01 59.93034 2011-01-01 64.92547 2012-01-01 69.40520 2013-01-01 70.98469 2014-01-01 72.57951 2015-01-01 71.69547 2016-01-01 75.33989 2017-01-01 74.77730 2018-01-01 76.24519 2019-01-01 78.06511 2020-01-01 98.56375 2021-01-01 94.44762 2022-01-01 94.20952 2023-01-01 95.88707