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Flow of Funds Summary StatisticsFourth Quarter 2009
Debt of the domestic nonfinancial sectors isestimated to have expanded at a seasonally adjustedannual rate of 1½ percent in the fourth quarter of 2009,about 1¼ percentage points slower than in the previousquarter. Private debt contracted in the fourth quarter,while government debt continued to expand, albeit at aslower pace than in the preceding quarter. For 2009 as awhole, domestic nonfinancial debt rose 3¼ percent,about 2½ percentage points below the 2008 pace.Household debt contracted at an annual rate of 1¼ percent in the fourth quarter, its seventh consecutivequarter of decline. Home mortgage debt fell at anannual rate of ¾ percent, a significantly slower declinethan in the third quarter, while consumer creditcontracted at an annual rate of 5¾ percent. In 2009,household debt contracted 1¾ percent, the first yearlydecline in household debt reported in the flow of fundsaccounts.Nonfinancial business debt contracted at anannual rate of 3¼ percent in the fourth quarter, with allcredit market instruments except corporate bondsshowing a decline. The 1¾ percent decline innonfinancial business debt in 2009 as a whole was thefirst yearly decline since the early 1990s.State and local government debt expanded atan annual rate of 4¾ percent last quarter, about thesame as for the year 2009 as a whole. Federalgovernment debt increased at an annual rate of 12½percent in the fourth quarter, about half the rate of thepast two years; for the year 2009, federal governmentdebt rose almost 23 percent.At the end of the fourth quarter of 2009, thelevel of domestic nonfinancial debt outstanding was$34.7 trillion; household debt was $13.5 trillion,nonfinancial business debt was $11.0 trillion, and totalgovernment debt was $10.2 trillion.Household net worth—the difference betweenthe value of assets and liabilities—was an estimated$54.2 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter, up$0.7 trillion from the third quarter. For 2009 as awhole, household net worth increased $2.8 trillion.
Growth of Domestic Nonfinancial Debt
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20005.0 9.1 9.3 1.4 -8.02001 6.3 9.6 5.7 8.8 -0.220027.4 10.8 2.8 11.1 7.620038.1 11.8 2.3 8.3 10.920048.9 11.0 6.3 7.3 9.020059.5 11.1 8.8 10.2 7.020069.0 10.0 10.5 8.3 3.920078.7 6.7 13.4 9.5 4.920085.9 0.1 5.2 2.5 24.220093.3 -1.7 -1.8 4.8 22.72008:Q15.5 3.1 7.8 3.9 8.1Q23.2 -0.0 6.4 1.8 5.9Q38.1 -0.6 5.0 3.9 39.2Q46.1 -1.9 1.2 0.2 37.02009:Q14.2 -1.3 0.4 4.7 22.6Q24.5 -1.7 -2.1 4.1 28.2Q3 2.9 -2.7 -2.3 5.5 20.6Q41.6 -1.2 -3.2 4.7 12.61. Changes shown are on an end-of-period basis.
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