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National Debt

U.S. National Debt Clock

The total U.S. federal debt, updated live in your browser from the most recent U.S. Treasury figure. The clock estimates growth between official quarterly readings — treat the moving figure as an estimate, not an exact balance.

The US debt clock, live

This US debt clock tracks the total federal debt in real time, seeded from the latest U.S. Treasury figure and updated continuously in your browser. Use the live debt clock below to watch the national debt grow second by second, and see what it works out to per citizen and per taxpayer. For more interactive debt and spending charts, see GovSpending.org.

Total U.S. national debt

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Estimated growth rate is derived from the two most recent Treasury readings.

Seed value: 39065421.0 (USD millions) as of 2026-01-01. Source: U.S. Treasury via FRED (series GFDEBTN). Public domain.

What the debt is per person

These figures divide the live national debt total by population and taxpayer estimates. They are approximations for context only.

How this debt clock works

The U.S. Treasury reports the total public debt, which the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis publishes as FRED series GFDEBTN in millions of dollars. We seed this clock with the most recent reading and its date, then estimate a per-second growth rate from the change between the two most recent readings. Your browser increments the displayed figure from that seed.

Because the underlying data is published quarterly, the live figure is an estimate that interpolates forward — it is not an authoritative, to-the-dollar balance. For the official daily figure, see the U.S. Treasury's "Debt to the Penny" tool. If your device requests reduced motion, the clock displays a static figure instead of animating.

Source: U.S. Treasury via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis · public domain. Per-person figures are estimates.

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Government Transparency Project is an independent, non-governmental publication. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the U.S. government or any federal agency. Data is sourced from public APIs (FRED (Federal Reserve), U.S. Treasury, Congress.gov, Bureau of Labor Statistics).

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