Debt Datasets — U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data

Debt to the Penny

Endpoint: /v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny Frequency: Daily Date Range: 1993-04-01 to present

Tracks the exact total public debt outstanding each business day.

Key fields:

# Current national debt
resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny",
    params={"sort": "-record_date", "page[size]": 1},
    timeout=30,
)
resp.raise_for_status()
latest = resp.json()["data"][0]
from decimal import Decimal
print(f"As of {latest['record_date']}: ${Decimal(latest['tot_pub_debt_out_amt']):,.2f}")

# Preview of debt since January 2024; fetch_all() is needed for the full series
resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny",
    params={
        "fields": "record_date,tot_pub_debt_out_amt",
        "filter": "record_date:gte:2024-01-01",
        "sort": "-record_date"
    },
    timeout=30,
)
resp.raise_for_status()
df = pd.DataFrame(resp.json()["data"])
df["tot_pub_debt_out_amt"] = df["tot_pub_debt_out_amt"].astype(float)

Historical Debt Outstanding

Endpoint: /v2/accounting/od/debt_outstanding Frequency: Annual Date Range: 1790 to present

Annual record of U.S. national debt going back to the founding of the republic.

Key fields:

# Full historical debt series (verify it fits in the requested page)
resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v2/accounting/od/debt_outstanding",
    params={"sort": "-record_date", "page[size]": 10000},
    timeout=30,
)
resp.raise_for_status()
assert resp.json()["meta"]["total-pages"] <= 1, "Use fetch_all for more pages"
df = pd.DataFrame(resp.json()["data"])

Schedules of Federal Debt

Endpoint: /v1/accounting/od/schedules_fed_debt Frequency: Monthly Date Range: October 2005 to present

Monthly debt balances and activity by holder and classification. Do not sum opening/closing balances with activity lines. Unlike Debt to the Penny, these schedules exclude Federal Financing Bank debt; reconcile scope and units before comparing totals.

Key fields:

Schedules of Federal Debt by Day

Two daily data tables under /v1/accounting/od/:

Related: /v1/accounting/od/schedules_fed_debt_fytd — fiscal year-to-date schedules.

Treasury Report on Receivables (TROR)

Endpoint: /v2/debt/tror Frequency: Quarterly Date Range: December 2016 to present

Federal agency compliance and receivables data. Also includes:

• /v2/debt/tror/data_act_compliance — 120 Day Delinquent Debt Referral Compliance Report

Key fields:

# TROR data, sorted by funding type
resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v2/debt/tror",
    params={"sort": "funding_type_id"},
    timeout=30,
)
resp.raise_for_status()

Gift Contributions to Reduce the Public Debt

Endpoint: /v2/accounting/od/gift_contributions Frequency: Monthly Date Range: September 1996 to present

Records voluntary contributions from the public to reduce the national debt.

Interest Expense on the Public Debt Outstanding

Endpoint: /v2/accounting/od/interest_expense Frequency: Monthly Date Range: May 2010 to present

Monthly interest expense broken down by security type.

Key fields:

Use month_expense_amt for monthly flows, or the September fytd_expense_amt for a completed fiscal year. Preserve all three expense dimensions when checking the components. Never sum cumulative FYTD observations over months. This dataset uses modified accrual accounting and some GAS cash-basis entries; its expense measure is not the MTS budget net-interest measure. See the worked fiscal-year example in examples.md.

Advances to State Unemployment Funds (Title XII)

Endpoint: /v2/accounting/od/title_xii Frequency: Daily Date Range: October 2016 to present

States and territories borrowing from the federal Unemployment Trust Fund.

Key fields:

Official sources

Reviewed 2026-09-30 against the current dataset dictionaries and live API responses.

• Debt To The Penny
• Schedules Federal Debt
• Treasury Report On Receivables
• Interest Expense Debt Outstanding
• Ssa Title Xii Advance Activities