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Total public debt outstanding ($B)

Latest value: $40,388.32 billion for Oct 15, 2026, +6.4% year over year (against Oct 15, 2025). 2,206 daily observations from Jan 2, 2018 to Oct 15, 2026, in billions of US dollars. Source: Treasury FiscalData (FISCAL route); context series, not an input to the Nowflation CPI Gauge.

Latest observations

PeriodValue
Oct 15, 2026$40,388.32 billion
Oct 14, 2026$40,329.23 billion
Oct 13, 2026$40,343.88 billion
Oct 9, 2026$40,301.48 billion
Oct 8, 2026$40,305.32 billion
Oct 7, 2026$40,284.04 billion
Oct 6, 2026$40,273.02 billion
Oct 5, 2026$40,249.1 billion
Oct 2, 2026$40,242.45 billion
Oct 1, 2026$40,260.64 billion
Sep 30, 2026$40,171.83 billion
Sep 29, 2026$40,096.95 billion

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Cite: Nowflation, “Total public debt outstanding ($B)” (fiscal_debt_total), data from Treasury FiscalData, retrieved October 18, 2026, https://nowflation.com/series/fiscal_debt_total. The series at its source: Treasury FiscalData.

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