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STATISTICS

1. Liabilities to all foreigners by type and holder
   Note: Short-term U.S. securities held by foreigners are included (see News #2(a) below.):
   • Recent data. Also available in "csv" format.
   • Historical data. Also available in "csv" format.
     
     
2. Liabilities by country and region:
   • By Country (see News #2(b) on short-term securities)
     
     
   • Grand Total. (2,000 KB). Also, data before February 2003.
   • Global (set of all countries). Also available in "csv" and "txt (tab-delimited)" formats, to download for spreadsheets. The list of country codes-country names is in "Help for TIC Data Users" in the upper-right section of the webpage. Also, data before February 2003 (2,090 KB); in  "csv" and "txt (tab-delimited)" formats.
   • Europe & Canada. Also, data before February 2003.
   • Latin America & Caribbean. Also, data before February 2003.
   • Asia. Also, data before February 2003.
   • Africa, International Organizations, & Others. Also, data before February 2003.

1. Quarterly Analysis and Charts (PDF).
   
   
2. Short-term negotiable U.S. securities and CDs are included in the banking liabilities data on this webpage.
   1. In section A of STATISTICS above, the aggregated data for all foreigners show foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury bills (lines 5,10,15,35), of Other short-term securities and CDs (lines 6,11,16,36), of short-term U.S. agency securities (line 37), and of negotiable CDs (line 38).
   2. In section B of STATISTICS above, the country data show foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury bills (column 9), of Other short-term securities (column 10), and of negotiable CDs (column 11).
      
      
3. Data-Series Breaks and Other Changes:
   1. 2008-2009: Effective with the data release on September 16, 2009, a number of institutions were reclassified in the TIC system as bank holding companies. These data reporters are now included in the monthly bank-reported statistics above and are no longer reporting only quarterly as nonbanks. This change in reporter classification affects data going back to October 2008.
   2. Data as of February 2003.