USA Debt update

Below updated situation on the USA Treasury holdings, US has become consistently more dependent in 2010 on foreign help to sustain his gigantic debt.

Data summary

MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES

$bn at end of period. Click heading to sort table. Download this data

Country	Oct 2010.	Oct 2009.	Oct 2008.	% change, Oct 2008-Oct 2010
SOURCE: US Treasury • Download this data
China, Mainland	906.8	938.3	684.1	32.6
Japan	877.4	742.9	629.6	39.4
United Kingdom	477.6	105.7	133.2	258.6
Oil Exporters	213.9	209	176.7	21.1
All Other	161	158	149.1	8.0
Brazil	177.6	164.9	141	26.0
Carib Bnkng Ctrs	133.7	114	203.5	-34.3
Hong Kong	139.2	137.8	69.8	99.4
Taiwan	131.2	115.6	65.9	99.1
Russia	131.6	145.9	110.8	18.8
Switzerland	101.3	85.2	62	63.4
Canada	125.2	44.8	14	794.3
Luxembourg	78.5	79.5	100.8	-22.1
Thailand	66.2	28	34	94.7
Germany	60.1	47.9	53.7	11.9
Singapore	63.6	36.3	34	87.1
Ireland	41.4	42.6	35.1	17.9
Korea, South	41.1	43.3	36.2	13.5
India	41.1	35.8	18.3	124.6
Mexico	34.9	26.5	32.2	8.4
France	35.1	29.1	20.5	71.2
Belgium	15.7	16.9	15.8	-0.6
Egypt	34.9	14.3	16.7	109.0
Turkey	27.6	30.3	27.9	-1.1
Poland	26.3	21.9
Italy	21	21.6	15.3	37.3
Norway	18.7	7.3	11.5	62.6
Netherlands	14.6	20.5	15.7	-7.0
Colombia	17.3	18.3	11.3	53.1
Israel	17.9	14.5	12.4	44.4
Sweden	15	15.3	13.5	11.1
Philippines	12.9	11.4	12.1	6.6
Chile	13.6	12.4	15	-9.3
Australia	11.8	12.8
Malaysia	11.6	11.7	8.6	34.9
Spain		13.1
Grand Total	4310.2	3573.1	2980.3	44.62