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Who owns the most of the United States' foreign debt?

gp Top 10 foreign holders of treasury securities #1 # 2 #3 #5 OIL BELGIUM EXPORTERS $335.7 billion $278.9 billion #6 CHINA JAPAN #4 CARIBBEAN BANKING CENTERS BRAZIL $331.5 billion $264.2 billion $1.25 trillion $1.24 trillion Gross External US Debt: Amount Held by Top 10: CARIBBEAN BANKING CENTERS include Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman $6.11 trillion Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Panama and British Virgin Islands. $4.4 trillion OIL EXPORTERS include Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Gabon, Libya and Nigeria. Source: US Treasury Department, Nov. 2014 SWITZERLAND $183.8 billion UK $174.5 billion TAIWAN $170.6 billion OLA LUXEMBOURG $167.3 billion Simran Khosla / GlobalPast

Who owns the most of the United States' foreign debt?

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Nearly two-thirds of US debt is held by domestic entities (65.6 percent) and the rest is held by foreign owners (34.4 percent). The biggest shares are owned by Social Security (16 percent), other fede...

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