% of Commonwealth Government securities - Source frequency: quarterly · Methodology · Corrections
Supporting data for Federal Gross Debt. It adds detail to that headline metric and is not counted in the national scores.
Australia's non-resident share of federal debt was 50.2% as of December 2025. The share of Commonwealth Government securities (bonds) held by non-residents, from the Budget's Debt Statement. Foreign ownership of the debt is a read on how exposed the budget is to shifts in offshore demand for Australian bonds. Data is sourced from Treasury Budget Paper No. 1 (chart data) - Debt Statement, proportion of non-resident holdings and updated quarterly.
The share of Commonwealth Government securities (bonds) held by non-residents, from the Budget's Debt Statement.
Foreign ownership of the debt is a read on how exposed the budget is to shifts in offshore demand for Australian bonds.
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Source: Treasury Budget Paper No. 1 (chart data) - Debt Statement, proportion of non-resident holdings
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (Treasury Budget Paper No. 1 (chart data) - Debt Statement, proportion of non-resident holdings), updated quarterly. Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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