Estimate · Treasury feed unavailable

    United States National Debt

    A real-time, second-by-second projection of the U.S. national debt, anchored to live data from the U.S. Treasury.

    Total Outstanding Debt

    $40,000,000,000,000

    $40.000T

    Illustrative estimate · projected in real time

    Deficit Rate

    Illustrative estimate · Treasury feed unavailable

    Per Second

    +$100,000

    Per Minute

    +$6,000,000

    Per Hour

    +$360,000,000

    Per Day

    +$8,640,000,000

    ÷ 335M people

    Debt Per Citizen

    $119,402

    ÷ 168M taxpayers

    Debt Per Taxpayer

    $238,095

    Where this number comes from

    The live U.S. Treasury feed is currently unavailable, so this counter is showing an illustrative estimate of roughly $100,000 per second. It switches back to live Treasury data automatically as soon as the feed is reachable.