Federal Gross Debt — methodology
Category: Government & Fiscal · Unit: AUD billions · Published quarterly
What this metric measures
Total gross debt of the Australian federal government, in dollar terms.
Why it matters: Government debt represents obligations on future taxpayers. Sustainable debt levels are important for fiscal resilience.
Source & provenance
- Publisher
- AOFM; Australian Government Budget Paper
- Update frequency
- quarterly
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
How the score is computed
The score is a 0–100 normalisation of the latest observation, compared to a baseline window. The traffic-light rating (RAG) reflects both the absolute level and the recent trend.
- Direction
- Lower is better
- Trend window
- 60 months
- Baseline
- Last 10 years
Thresholds:
{
"red_min_pct_of_baseline": 110,
"amber_max_pct_of_baseline": 110,
"green_max_pct_of_baseline": 95
}See related corrections at /corrections, or the live data and chart at https://www.australiametrics.org/metric/federal-gross-debt.