A graph showing interest payments as a fraction of GDP 1960-2008. Generated from interest payment data at <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/TableView.asp?SelectedTable=288&amp;ViewSeries=NO&amp;Java=no&amp;Request3Place=N&amp;3Place=N&amp;FromView=YES&amp;Freq=Year&amp;FirstYear=1960&amp;LastYear=2008&amp;3Place=N&amp;Update=Update&amp;JavaBox=no#Mid">[1]</a> (US Department of Commerce) and GDP data from <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/Download.aspx?rel=Z1&amp;series=654245a7abac051cc4a9060c911e1fa4&amp;filetype=csv&amp;label=include&amp;layout=seriescolumn&amp;from=01/01/1945&amp;to=12/31/2010">[2]</a> (the Federal Reserve)
This graph differs from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Components-of-total-US-interest-payments.jpg" title="File:Components-of-total-US-interest-payments.jpg">File:Components-of-total-US-interest-payments.jpg</a> in that it does not include interest paid on deposits, affecting financial sector series. This deduction is done to make the graph more consistent with <a class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Components-of-total-US-debt.jpg">[3]</a>, which shows credit market debt (which doesn't include bank deposits).
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2010-07-03
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