Switzerland Debt Clock

Swiss Confederation gross debt: CHF 177,553,647,048

Official, quarter-end Jun 30, 2026 · Federal Finance Administration, GFS quarterly data (SDDS Plus), "Schulden Bund", row Bruttoschulden, CHF thousand (cgd_q-d.xlsx on data.finance.admin.ch (machine-readable: https://www.data.finance.admin.ch/static/assets/datasets/gfs_dashboard/cgd_q-d.xlsx), row Bruttoschulden)

All financial liabilities of the Confederation except gold and SDRs: deposits, debt securities, loans, insurance and pension liabilities and other accounts payable, gross. Cantons, municipalities and social insurance are separate.

By quarter (official)

The live number = latest official total + (the official change per second over the past 12 months × seconds since that total). Switzerland publishes its debt once a quarter, not daily, so this is a projection between quarterly figures, not an official figure.

projected = 177,553,647,048 + -116.5005 × (seconds since Jun 30, 2026 11:59:59 PM CT)

The rate is the official change from Jun 30, 2025 to Jun 30, 2026: CHF 177,553,647,048 − CHF 181,227,608,050 = −CHF 3,673,961,002 over 365 days = −CHF 116.50 per second. We use the latest twelve months rather than the last quarter because changes between single reporting dates swing with the issuance calendar and short-term borrowing. The actual path is lumpy (bonds are sold in batches and repaid on schedules), so the projection will drift; when new quarterly figures come out, the clock re-bases to the new official figures.

How often it's published. Quarterly. The Federal Finance Administration publishes each quarter-end figure about three months after the quarter ends. The Q3 2026 quarter-end figure is expected from the Federal Finance Administration roughly three months after the quarter ends; this page re-bases to it automatically on the next daily build after it appears.

Per person divides by the FSO's estimate of 9,127,100 people on Dec 31, 2025. It is not projected forward, so the live per-person figure falls only with the debt.

Note. Why this measure: Bruttoschulden is the Federal Finance Administration's own gross debt line in the quarterly GFS statistics it reports to the IMF, the closest official match to the US clock's gross total. Its breakdown by instrument adds up to the headline and the fetcher checks that.

Note. Why it is larger than borrowing: the GFS gross debt counts all liabilities except gold and SDRs, including insurance and pension liabilities and other accounts payable. The money actually borrowed is shown as a fact.

Note. The debt brake: Switzerland's constitutional debt brake works on the federal budget balance, not on this stock measure. The Federal Finance Administration publishes other debt figures on a national accounting basis that differ from this GFS series.

Note. The franc: the World Debt Clock converts Swiss francs to US dollars at the ECB's daily reference rate for CHF.

Note. Figures from source tables may not add exactly because of rounding in the source.

Sources: Federal Finance Administration, GFS quarterly data (SDDS Plus), "Schulden Bund", row Bruttoschulden, CHF thousand · Federal Statistical Office (FSO), permanent resident population, definitive result at 31 December 2025 · Federal Finance Administration, Finance statistics data · Swiss National Bank, Data portal

Page built Oct 30, 2026 5:02 PM CT from the official figures above.