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    • Historical Debt Outstanding

    Metadata Updated: December 1, 2023

    Historical Debt Outstanding is a dataset that provides a summary of the U.S. government's total outstanding debt at the end of each fiscal year from 1789 to the current year. Between 1789 and 1842, the fiscal year began in January. From January 1842 until 1977, the fiscal year began in July. From July 1977 onwards, the fiscal year has started in October. Between 1789 and 1919, debt outstanding was presented as of the first day of the next fiscal year. From 1920 onwards, debt outstanding has been presented as of the final day of the fiscal year. This is a high-level summary of historical public debt and does not contain a breakdown of the debt components.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 1, 2023
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Treasury JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 1, 2023
    Publisher Bureau of the Fiscal Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier 015-BFS-2014Q3-071
    Data Last Modified 2019-09-30
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 015:12
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID http://www.treasury.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Dictionary https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/historical-debt-outstanding/
    Harvest Object Id b03da9f7-b4e9-4425-ac84-701f74dcffe2
    Harvest Source Id eacdc0c3-6ae0-4b8b-b653-cbcb32fc9b71
    Harvest Source Title Treasury JSON
    Homepage URL https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/historical-debt-outstanding/
    Primary IT Investment UII 015-000000060
    Program Code 015:034
    Publisher Hierarchy Department of the Treasury > Fiscal Service > Bureau of the Fiscal Service
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash fc899ef17a4c5b9ac9b49249d524ae98db33051d1cddf13e51eebe2b46acf26b
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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