Newest National Debt Statistics Now Posted - March 2012

The newest National Debt statistics as reported by www.treasurydirect.gov. Statistics are through March 6, 2011.

National Debt
Held by Public
$10,756,417,042,057.90

Intragovernmental Holdings
$4,742,606,587,624.54

Total debt (3/6/2011)
$15,499,023,629,682.44

Amount of Debt on Sept. 30, 2011
$14,790,340,328,557.15 

Increase in Fiscal Year 2011 (to date)
$708,683,301,125.29

Debt on Inauguration Day 2009
$10,626,877,048,913.08

Debt increase in 1141 days of Obama Administration
$4,872,146,580,769.36
($4,270,067,117.24/day)

Total Debt increase in George W. Bush Administration
($4,899,100,310,608.44 [$1,676,625,705.20/day - 2922 days])

Interest payments
February 2012 
$17,414,482,614.98

Fiscal Year 2012 (to date)
$186,670,292,515.87

Fiscal Year 2011 (total)

454,393,280,17.93

Gifts to reduce the Public Debt
January 2012 (last month reported)
$581,080.40

Fiscal Year 2012 (to-date)
$3,014,890.00

Fiscal Year 2011 (total)

$3,277,369.23

How do the Presidential Administrations compare?

President George Washington through President Gerald Ford
Presidents 1-38, 1791-1976
Debt Increase: $707,142,528,417.78

President James Earl Carter, 39th President, 1977-1980
Debt Increase: $276,666,000,000.00

President Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President, 1981-1988
Debt Increase: $1,672,127,712,041.16

President George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President, 1989-1992
Debt Increase: $1,462,282,943,480.50

President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, 42nd President, 1993-2000
Debt Increase: $1,609,557,554,365.20

President George Walker Bush, 43rd President, 2001-2008
Debt Increase: $4,899,100,310,608.44

President Barack Hussein Obama, 44th President, 2009-present
Debt Increase: $4,872,146,580,769.36  (through March 6, 2012)