At the end of FY 2018 the gross US federal government debt is estimated to be $21.09 trillion, according to the FY19 Federal Budget. Of this gross amount, debt “Held by the Public: Other” is estimated by usgovernmentspending.com at $12.89 trillion, debt “Held by the Public: Federal Reserve System” (i.e. monetized debt) is estimated by usgovernmentspending.com at $2.46 trillion and debt “Held by Federal Government Accounts” is estimated at $5.74 trillion.

Here is the gross federal debt by year for the last decade:

Federal Debt in trillions
2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
$8.95	$9.99	$11.88	$13.53	$14.76	$16.05	$16.72	$17.79	$18.12	$19.54	$20.24

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Total Federal Agency Debt in 2018

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At the end of FY 2018 the federal agency debt in the United States is “guesstimated” to be $9.26 trillion.

Agency debt is debt issued by federal agencies and government-sponsored enterprises, and is not included in the total gross debt of the federal government.

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Total State Government Debt in 2018

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At the end of FY 2018 the state government debt in the United States is expected to be $1.18 trillion.

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Total Local Government Debt in 2018

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At the end of FY 2018 the local government debt in the United States is expected to be $1.91 trillion.

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Debt Data Sources

Debt data is from official government sources.

Federal debt data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
Federal debt for 1940-1961 comes from the president’s budget.
Federal debt for 1914-1939 comes from the US Treasury and St. Louis Fed.
Federal debt before 1914 comes from the US Treasury
All other debt data comes from the US Census Bureau.

Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.

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Federal debt data begins in 1792.

State and local debt data begins in 1820.

State and local debt data for individual states begins in 1957.

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Gross Federal Debt

Debt: $20,487,502,503,616.26

Data Sources for 2013_2022:

Sources for 2013:

GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

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Federal Deficit, Outlays, and Receipts Actuals for FY17

On October 20, 2017, the US Treasury reported in its Monthly Treasury Statement (and xls) for September that the federal deficit for FY 2017 ending September 30, 2017, was $666 billion. Here are the numbers, including total receipts, total outlays, and deficit compared with the numbers projected in the FY 2018 federal budget published in May 2017:

Federal Finances FY 2016 Outcomes
	Budget billions	Outcome billions
Receipts	$3,460	$3,315
Outlays	$4,062	$3,981
Deficit	$603	$666

usgovernmentspending.com now shows the new numbers for total FY 2017 total outlays and receipts on its Estimate vs. Actual page.

The Monthly Treasury Statement includes "Table 4: Receipts of the United States Government, September 2017 and Other Periods." This table of receipts by source is used for usgovernmentspending.com to post federal receipt actuals for FY 2017.

This FTS report on FY 17 actuals is a problem for usgovernmentspending.com because this site uses Historical Table 3.2--Outlays by Function and Subfunction from the Budget of the United States as its basic source for federal subfunction outlays. But the Monthly Treasury Statement only includes "Table 9. Summary of Receipts by Source, and Outlays by Function of the U.S. Government, September 2016 and Other Periods". Subfunction amounts don't get reported until the FY19 budget in February 2018. Until then usgovernmentspending.com estimates actual outlays by "subfunction" for FY 2017 by factoring subfunction budgeted amounts for FY17 by the ratio between relevant actual and budgeted "function" amounts where actual outlays by subfunction cannot be gleaned from the Monthly Treasury Statement.

Final detailed FY 2017 actuals will not appear on usgovernmentspending.com until the FY 2019 federal budget is published in February 2018 with the actual outlays for FY 2017 in Historical Table 3.2--Outlays by Function and Subfunction.