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Global public debt

$99.2 trillion

2024 · claim WORLD-PUBLIC-2024 · edition 2026-09-14-v1

Exact value
99,200,000,000,000 USD
Perimeter

IMF public and private nonfinancial debt for 2024. A separate financial-sector layer and other obligations outside that scope are excluded. The figure comes from the global dataset, not the sum of this tour's examples.

What this measures
The IMF's 2024 global debt benchmark split into public and private nonfinancial components.
What it does not measure
A live 2026 total, financial-sector liabilities, or a household/business sub-split.
As published
99.2 USD trillions (normalized ×1000000000000 to reach the exact value above)
Caveat
One of the two supported sectors in the IMF's 2024 global benchmark. A preserved dated 2024 benchmark, not a live total and not a claim to have measured every obligation on Earth. Financial-sector debt and informal obligations are outside it.
Display step
100,000,000,000 — the precision this figure is shown at
Review status
Recorded against the publisher's own cited location. The source's consolidation status below says whether that page was retrieved during consolidation or an earlier review was preserved.

Publisher

  • Global debt remains above 235 percent of world GDP

    IMF. September 17, 2025 publication; 2024 public $99.2tn, private nonfinancial $151.8tn, combined $251tn.

    2024 observation; published September 17, 2025. Status as of 2026-09-13.

    Retrieved again from the publisher on that date.

  • IMF Global Debt Database

    IMF. Public and private nonfinancial debt framework.

    Public and private nonfinancial debt framework; selected historical edition. Status as of 2026-09-13.

    An earlier review stands; nothing was fetched again. This is the historical edition we chose, dated, not a live counter of the world's debt.

Cite this figure

Global public debt, $99.2 trillion, 2024. IMF, Global debt remains above 235 percent of world GDP, status as of 2026-09-13. IMF, IMF Global Debt Database, status as of 2026-09-13. Planet IOU, edition 2026-09-14-v1, https://planetiou.jonathanrreed.com/sources/WORLD-PUBLIC-2024/

This claim is a dated observation, not a live figure. It is never updated in place: a newer reading is a new edition with its own page. See methodology for how amounts are normalized and corrections for anything that has changed.