Public debt:

58.9% of GDP (2010 est.)

country comparison to the world: 37

53.5% of GDP (2009 est.)

note: data cover only what the United States Treasury denotes as "Debt Held by the Public," which includes all debt instruments issued by the Treasury that are owned by non-US Government entities; the data include Treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data exclude debt issued by individual US states, as well as intra-governmental debt; intra-governmental debt consists of Treasury borrowings from surpluses in the trusts for Federal Social Security, Federal Employees, Hospital Insurance (Medicare and Medicaid), Disability and Unemployment, and several other smaller trusts; if data for intra-government debt were added, "Gross Debt" would increase by about 30% of GDP

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

1.4% (2010 est.)

country comparison to the world: 35

-0.3% (2009 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

0.5% (31 December 2009)

country comparison to the world: 136

0.86% (31 December 2008)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

3.25% (31 December 2009 est.)

country comparison to the world: 145

5.09% (31 December 2008 est.)

Stock of narrow money:

$1.74 trillion (31 December 2010 est.)

country comparison to the world: 5

$1.722 trillion (31 December 2009 est.)

Stock of broad money:

$12.39 trillion (31 December 2009)

country comparison to the world: 3

$12.46 trillion (31 December 2008)