# The Debt Clock

> A live, verifiable U.S. national debt tracker. The projected headline and last confirmed Treasury figure are always identified separately.

## Current confirmed data

- Total public debt outstanding: $40,046,178,322,793
- Treasury record date: 2026-09-11
- Debt held by the public: $32,357,573,654,300
- Intragovernmental holdings: $7,688,604,668,492
- Debt per resident: $117,168
- Debt per taxable return: $385,059
- Debt-to-GDP: 125.7%

## Important interpretation

The confirmed figure above is the official observation. The moving website counter is a projection between Treasury publications, calculated from a trailing outlier-filtered rate. It is not an official second-by-second Treasury feed. Debt per person is a scale comparison, not a personal bill.

## Canonical pages

- Current debt: https://thedebtclock.com/current-us-debt
- Historical series: https://thedebtclock.com/debt-history
- Debt per person: https://thedebtclock.com/debt-per-person
- Debt by president: https://thedebtclock.com/debt-by-president
- Interest: https://thedebtclock.com/debt-interest
- Debt-to-GDP: https://thedebtclock.com/debt-to-gdp
- Debt versus deficit: https://thedebtclock.com/national-debt-vs-deficit
- Fiscal glossary: https://thedebtclock.com/glossary
- Data downloads: https://thedebtclock.com/data
- Methodology: https://thedebtclock.com/methodology
- Sources: https://thedebtclock.com/sources
- API documentation: https://thedebtclock.com/developers

## Machine-readable data

- Current JSON: https://thedebtclock.com/api/current.json
- History JSON: https://thedebtclock.com/api/history.json
- Annual history CSV: https://thedebtclock.com/api/history.csv
- OpenAPI: https://thedebtclock.com/openapi.json
- Full documentation: https://thedebtclock.com/llms-full.txt

## Source and citation

Primary source: U.S. Treasury, Debt to the Penny — https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
Suggested citation: The Debt Clock (thedebtclock.com), sourced from U.S. Treasury Debt to the Penny, record dated 2026-09-11.