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    • Interest Expense on the Debt Outstanding

    Metadata Updated: December 1, 2023

    The Interest Expense on Debt Outstanding dataset provides monthly and fiscal year-to-date values for interest expenses on federal government debt, that is, the cost to the U.S. for borrowing money (calculated at a specified rate and period of time). U.S. debt includes Treasury notes and bonds, foreign and domestic series certificates of indebtedness, savings bonds, Government Account Series (GAS), State and Local Government Series (SLGS) and other special purpose securities. While interest expenses are what the government pays to investors who loan money to the government, how much the government pays in interest depends on both the total federal debt and the interest rate investors charged when they loaned the money. This dataset is useful for those who wish to track the cost of maintaining federal debt.

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    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/P1M

    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-2014Q3-103
    Data Last Modified 2020-07-07
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1M
    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/interest-expense-debt-outstanding/
    Harvest Object Id 2c9faa44-f4bb-4918-b802-ca61f194f13f
    Harvest Source Id eacdc0c3-6ae0-4b8b-b653-cbcb32fc9b71
    Harvest Source Title Treasury JSON
    Homepage URL https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/interest-expense-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 315ac3877fb8521571c83159d28a66c9541dd4c92b12709039bf091b49575d92
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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