Investment (gross fixed):
12.8% of GDP (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 142
Public debt:
58.9% of GDP (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 36 53.5% of GDP (2009 est.)
note: data cover only what the United States Treasury denotes as "Debt Held by the Public," which includes all debt instruments issued by the Treasury that are owned by non-US Government entities; the data include Treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data exclude debt issued by individual US states, as well as intra-governmental debt; intra-governmental debt consists of Treasury borrowings from surpluses in the trusts for Federal Social Security, Federal Employees, Hospital Insurance (Medicare and Medicaid), Disability and Unemployment, and several other smaller trusts; if data for intra-government debt were added, "Gross Debt" would increase by about 30% of GDP
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1.4% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 34 -0.3% (2009 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
0.5% (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 137 0.86% (31 December 2008)
Commercial bank prime lending rate: