US National debt for dummies: precizely how much are we owning? Per person, relatively to other important numbers, etc.
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK The Outstanding Public Debt as of 19 Feb 2008 at 07:41:03 PM GMT is: $9,299,550,950,326.54 The estimated population of the United States is 304,403,982 so each citizen’s share of this debt is $30,550.03. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.56 billion per day since September 29, 2006! You can also find this info that the government puts out daily: http://www.treasurydirect.gov The United States total public debt, commonly called the national debt, or U.S. government debt, is the amount of money owed by the United States federal government to creditors who hold U.S. debt instruments. As of February 2008, the total U.S. federal debt was approximately $9.2 trillion, about $79,000 in average for each American taxpayer. Of this amount, debt held by the public was roughly $5.1 trillion.[1] Debt held by the public is all federal debt held by states, corporations, individuals, and foreig
