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 "name": "Government debt, % of GDP",
 "region": "us",
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 "cadence": "quarterly",
 "state": "context",
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 "trend": "flat",
 "publisher": "Bank for International Settlements",
 "series_code": "WS_TC Q.US.G.A.M.770.A",
 "licence": "BIS terms of use: free reuse with attribution",
 "description": "Credit to the general government sector as a share of GDP, the BIS's core debt measure: loans and debt securities at market value, consolidated. Shown for context; it has no threshold. Federal, state and local government together; the BIS measure was 111 % of GDP in early 2026.",
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  {
   "period": "2014-04-01",
   "value": 98.9
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  {
   "period": "2014-07-01",
   "value": 98.8
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  {
   "period": "2014-10-01",
   "value": 100.4
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  {
   "period": "2015-01-01",
   "value": 100.6
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  {
   "period": "2015-04-01",
   "value": 97.7
  },
  {
   "period": "2015-07-01",
   "value": 98.5
  },
  {
   "period": "2015-10-01",
   "value": 99.6
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  {
   "period": "2016-01-01",
   "value": 102.6
  },
  {
   "period": "2016-04-01",
   "value": 103.3
  },
  {
   "period": "2016-07-01",
   "value": 103.2
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  {
   "period": "2016-10-01",
   "value": 100.6
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  {
   "period": "2017-01-01",
   "value": 99.6
  },
  {
   "period": "2017-04-01",
   "value": 98.7
  },
  {
   "period": "2017-07-01",
   "value": 99.1
  },
  {
   "period": "2017-10-01",
   "value": 99.4
  },
  {
   "period": "2018-01-01",
   "value": 99.1
  },
  {
   "period": "2018-04-01",
   "value": 97.5
  },
  {
   "period": "2018-07-01",
   "value": 96.7
  },
  {
   "period": "2018-10-01",
   "value": 98.9
  },
  {
   "period": "2019-01-01",
   "value": 100.5
  },
  {
   "period": "2019-04-01",
   "value": 100.7
  },
  {
   "period": "2019-07-01",
   "value": 103.7
  },
  {
   "period": "2019-10-01",
   "value": 103.5
  },
  {
   "period": "2020-01-01",
   "value": 110.7
  },
  {
   "period": "2020-04-01",
   "value": 125.1
  },
  {
   "period": "2020-07-01",
   "value": 127.3
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  {
   "period": "2020-10-01",
   "value": 129.3
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  {
   "period": "2021-01-01",
   "value": 125.4
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  {
   "period": "2021-04-01",
   "value": 121.9
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  {
   "period": "2021-07-01",
   "value": 119.2
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  {
   "period": "2021-10-01",
   "value": 119
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  {
   "period": "2022-01-01",
   "value": 113.8
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  {
   "period": "2022-04-01",
   "value": 106.9
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  {
   "period": "2022-07-01",
   "value": 102
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  {
   "period": "2022-10-01",
   "value": 101.5
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  {
   "period": "2023-01-01",
   "value": 103
  },
  {
   "period": "2023-04-01",
   "value": 101.6
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  {
   "period": "2023-07-01",
   "value": 101
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  {
   "period": "2023-10-01",
   "value": 105.4
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  {
   "period": "2024-01-01",
   "value": 105.1
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  {
   "period": "2024-04-01",
   "value": 103.5
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  {
   "period": "2024-07-01",
   "value": 107.7
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  {
   "period": "2024-10-01",
   "value": 106.2
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  {
   "period": "2025-01-01",
   "value": 107.7
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  {
   "period": "2025-04-01",
   "value": 106.3
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  {
   "period": "2025-07-01",
   "value": 109.7
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  {
   "period": "2025-10-01",
   "value": 110.9
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   "period": "2026-01-01",
   "value": 110.8
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 "url": "https://worldstat.us/indicator/us-govdebt"
}