Can you find the U.S. stock of national debt and its stock of international indebtedness?

Question

These are the stocks from the twin deficit flows of the Current Account Deficit or external deficit and the Government Budget Deficit or internal deficit.

Answer 1

For all country questions, the place to start is the CIA Factbook:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications...

It has:

public debt - 60.8% of GDP (2007 est.)

budget deficit - revenues: $2.568 trillion

expenditures: $2.73 trillion (2007 est.)

current account balance - -$738.6 billion (2007 est.)

Given the importance of these particular numbers, you can find more recent values by doing the appropriate web searches.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis often has good data:

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/internat...