File:US Federal Debt as Percent of GDP by President (1940 to 2015).png

Summary

A graph, created using Google Spreadsheets, depicting the U.S. federal debt from 1940 to 2014, as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). Presidential terms of Democratic (blue) and Republican (red) presidents are shown. This is an improvement over the previous file (see below) for the following reason: the data now goes through 2014 (previous version was 2012) and all data comes from one dataset.

Gross federal debt data and percentage of GDP are from <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/">[1]</a>, Table 7.1. Please note that the GDP%ages for all years seem to have changed. That's just an update from the original data source (the White House's historical data). Most of their historical data this year agrees with the historical data from last year (2013) but it seems to have been updated a bit from 2012's numbers.

Year    Debt as % of GDP        President       Party
1940    51.6    Roosevelt       Democrat
1941    49.5    Roosevelt       Democrat
1942    53.6    Roosevelt       Democrat
1943    77.3    Roosevelt       Democrat
1944    95.5    Roosevelt       Democrat
1945    114.9   Roosevelt       Democrat
1946    118.9   Truman  Democrat
1947    107.6   Truman  Democrat
1948    96      Truman  Democrat
1949    91.3    Truman  Democrat
1950    92.1    Truman  Democrat
1951    78      Truman  Democrat
1952    72.5    Truman  Democrat
1953    69.5    Eisenhower      Republican
1954    69.9    Eisenhower      Republican
1955    67.4    Eisenhower      Republican
1956    62.1    Eisenhower      Republican
1957    58.6    Eisenhower      Republican
1958    59      Eisenhower      Republican
1959    56.9    Eisenhower      Republican
1960    54.3    Eisenhower      Republican
1961    53.4    Kennedy Democrat
1962    51.6    Kennedy Democrat
1963    50.1    Kennedy Democrat
1964    47.7    Johnson Democrat
1965    45.4    Johnson Democrat
1966    42      Johnson Democrat
1967    40.6    Johnson Democrat
1968    41      Johnson Democrat
1969    37.2    Nixon   Republican
1970    36.3    Nixon   Republican
1971    36.5    Nixon   Republican
1972    35.7    Nixon   Republican
1973    34.4    Nixon   Republican
1974    32.6    Nixon   Republican
1975    33.6    Ford    Republican
1976    35.1    Ford    Republican
1977    34.8    Carter  Democrat
1978    34.1    Carter  Democrat
1979    32.3    Carter  Democrat
1980    32.5    Carter  Democrat
1981    31.7    Reagan  Republican
1982    34.3    Reagan  Republican
1983    38.7    Reagan  Republican
1984    39.6    Reagan  Republican
1985    42.6    Reagan  Republican
1986    46.7    Reagan  Republican
1987    49.1    Reagan  Republican
1988    50.5    Reagan  Republican
1989    51.5    Bush    Republican
1990    54.2    Bush    Republican
1991    58.9    Bush    Republican
1992    62.2    Bush    Republican
1993    64      Clinton Democrat
1994    64.5    Clinton Democrat
1995    64.9    Clinton Democrat
1996    64.9    Clinton Democrat
1997    63.3    Clinton Democrat
1998    61.2    Clinton Democrat
1999    58.9    Clinton Democrat
2000    55.5    Clinton Democrat
2001    54.6    Bush    Republican
2002    57      Bush    Republican
2003    59.7    Bush    Republican
2004    60.8    Bush    Republican
2005    61.3    Bush    Republican
2006    61.8    Bush    Republican
2007    62.5    Bush    Republican
2008    67.7    Bush    Republican
2009    82.4    Obama   Democrat
2010    91.4    Obama   Democrat
2011    96      Obama   Democrat
2012    100.2   Obama   Democrat
2013    100.8   Obama   Democrat
2014    103.2   Obama   Democrat
2015    101.8   Obama   Democrat
2016 estimate   105.2   Obama   Democrat
2017 estimate   104.4
2018 estimate   103.7
2019 estimate   103.2
2020 estimate   102.4

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