Us National Debt Chart. Other popular classifications of debt see charts below are corporate debt and household debt. Historically the ratio has increased during wars and recessions.
10 rows The total US. In May 2021 the US national debt was 2819 trillion US. US National Debt by President.
For the first 50 years in our visual from 1929 until 1979 the US.
It was just 16B in 1929 or about 16 of GDP rising to 827B or 31 of GDP in 1979. Government Debt in the United States averaged 483726882 USD Million from 1942 until 2021 reaching an all time high of 28908765 USD Million in October of 2021 and a record low of 60000 USD Million in January of 1942. Then the Republicans took over. It includes debt held by the public as well as intragovernmental holdings.