International Summary Statistics
Release Date: December 2020
Selected U.S. Liabilities to Foreign Official Institutions (Table 3.15)
Millions of dollars, end of period
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Item | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Apr 2020/r | May 2020/r | Jun 2020/r | Jul 2020/r | Aug 2020 | Sep 2020/r | Oct 2020/p | |||
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1 | Total | 6,174,343 | 6,081,353 | 6,589,271 | 6,598,213 | 6,727,003 | 6,717,010 | 6,795,838 | 6,866,518 | 6,791,879 | 6,687,659 | ||
By Type | |||||||||||||
2 | Liabilities reported by banks in the United States1 | 402,227 | 433,281 | 450,118 | 515,957 | 499,047 | 451,444 | 434,097 | 432,774 | 408,306 | 408,014 | ||
3 | U.S. Treasury bills and certificates2 | 317,227 | 315,141 | 268,567 | 331,014 | 355,721 | 382,477 | 393,564 | 385,016 | 371,483 | 375,411 | ||
U.S. Treasury bonds and notes | |||||||||||||
4 | Marketable | 3,706,546 | 3,641,438 | 3,808,130 | 3,716,137 | 3,750,008 | 3,765,257 | 3,798,138 | 3,814,756 | 3,827,839 | 3,791,823 | ||
5 | Nonmarketable3 | 181 | 195 | 209 | 214 | 216 | 217 | 218 | 220 | 221 | 222 | ||
6 | U.S. Securities other than U.S. Treasury securities4 | 1,748,162 | 1,691,298 | 2,062,247 | 2,034,891 | 2,122,011 | 2,117,615 | 2,169,821 | 2,233,752 | 2,184,030 | 2,112,189 | ||
7 | of which: long-term U.S. agency securities | 539,849 | 611,620 | 665,273 | 713,245 | 703,292 | 686,369 | 675,437 | 663,884 | 654,337 | 634,364 | ||
8 | of which: long-term U.S. corporate bonds | 166,272 | 165,997 | 180,968 | 189,105 | 196,341 | 199,877 | 202,235 | 198,374 | 195,833 | 194,516 | ||
9 | of which: U.S. corporate stocks | 1,042,041 | 913,681 | 1,216,006 | 1,132,541 | 1,222,378 | 1,231,369 | 1,292,149 | 1,371,494 | 1,333,860 | 1,283,309 | ||
By Area | |||||||||||||
10 | Europe | 982,346 | 883,117 | 991,966 | 989,188 | 1,019,257 | 1,028,710 | 1,056,637 | 1,083,321 | 1,055,625 | 1,053,249 | ||
11 | Canada | 37,430 | 35,040 | 46,049 | 49,377 | 52,997 | 49,235 | 49,622 | 48,563 | 47,178 | 45,961 | ||
12 | Latin America and Caribbean | 487,093 | 529,560 | 516,366 | 517,556 | 513,112 | 503,899 | 508,435 | 518,926 | 515,412 | 511,845 | ||
13 | Asia | 4,553,666 | 4,501,441 | 4,898,063 | 4,914,434 | 5,016,044 | 5,009,320 | 5,054,266 | 5,087,673 | 5,046,332 | 4,948,991 | ||
14 | Africa | 87,189 | 88,782 | 99,240 | 90,677 | 86,586 | 86,260 | 86,974 | 85,916 | 87,464 | 86,833 | ||
15 | Other countries | 26,619 | 43,413 | 37,587 | 36,981 | 39,007 | 39,586 | 39,904 | 42,119 | 39,868 | 41,413 |
- Principally demand deposits, time deposits, bankers acceptances, commercial paper, negotiable time certificates of deposit, and borrowings under repurchase agreements. Includes certain positions reported by nonbanks such as repurchases agreements with broker-dealers. Return to table
- Includes nonmarketable certificates of indebtedness and Treasury bills issued to official institutions of foreign countries. Return to table
- Excludes notes issued to foreign official nonreserve agencies. Includes the current value of a zero-coupon Treasury bond issued to the government of Argentina (beginning April 1993, 30-year maturity issue.) Return to table
- Debt securities of U.S. government corporations and federally sponsored agencies, and U.S. corporate stocks and bonds. Return to table
Source: Staff estimates based on Treasury International Capital (TIC) annual Surveys of Foreign Holdings of U.S. Securities and on monthly TIC S transactions data. Effective with the data as of September 2011, figures for long-term securities are based on TIC SLT data when available, and TIC S transactions data otherwise.
Last Update:
December 23, 2020