MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES (in billions of dollars) HOLDINGS 1/ AT END OF PERIOD Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan Dec Nov Oct Country 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ China, Mainland 1252.7 1266.3 1269.7 1264.9 1268.4 1270.9 1263.2 1272.1 1272.9 1275.6 1270.1 1316.7 1304.5 Japan 1222.4 1221.8 1230.1 1219.0 1219.3 1220.1 1209.7 1200.2 1210.8 1201.4 1182.5 1186.4 1174.4 Belgium 348.1 353.9 359.9 352.6 364.1 362.4 366.4 381.4 341.2 310.3 256.8 200.6 180.3 Carib Bkg Ctrs 4/ 324.9 315.0 313.9 312.9 307.9 310.1 307.7 312.1 299.9 297.8 294.2 290.9 291.9 Oil Exporters 3/ 281.8 279.4 267.5 261.3 262.1 257.9 255.4 247.4 243.8 246.5 238.3 236.2 236.8 Brazil 261.7 262.3 261.7 258.6 253.7 250.1 245.8 245.3 243.9 246.0 245.4 246.9 246.7 Switzerland 184.3 186.2 189.1 184.1 175.9 174.0 177.6 175.8 168.1 173.8 176.7 176.6 174.3 Taiwan 172.9 173.4 172.9 175.4 179.4 174.4 175.7 176.4 180.0 179.1 182.2 183.7 184.5 United Kingdom 2/ 171.3 167.9 172.8 173.1 173.6 179.9 185.5 176.5 175.7 163.2 163.7 161.5 158.5 Luxembourg 162.5 156.1 150.5 145.6 145.3 141.5 141.2 144.8 136.9 135.6 134.6 130.4 133.3 Hong Kong 161.0 159.0 160.5 158.7 157.6 155.2 154.5 155.1 160.4 160.3 158.8 141.7 137.3 Ireland 123.9 110.6 106.8 106.0 113.0 108.0 112.2 113.4 112.4 109.9 125.5 116.9 110.9 Russia 108.9 117.7 118.1 114.5 113.9 111.4 116.4 100.4 126.2 131.8 138.6 139.9 149.9 Singapore 108.0 108.5 106.3 101.0 98.1 97.5 93.1 91.3 86.9 85.9 86.2 87.2 86.3 Mexico 78.5 76.5 75.2 73.5 72.8 72.8 70.6 68.9 68.9 67.2 65.1 59.5 61.8 India 77.5 80.0 80.4 79.7 72.9 70.1 68.7 70.2 67.0 68.1 68.5 63.9 59.9 Norway 77.2 81.8 87.0 84.8 87.1 85.3 85.6 88.2 89.7 88.2 87.3 82.3 78.4 Turkey 75.7 74.7 73.4 54.9 52.8 53.2 50.5 50.9 49.6 48.9 52.2 53.4 51.5 Germany 72.5 75.0 69.4 65.0 68.0 62.8 63.0 63.0 61.3 63.9 67.3 64.3 60.7 Canada 62.9 65.3 64.9 66.3 65.6 62.7 60.6 60.1 59.3 55.5 55.9 57.0 58.0 France 59.7 72.3 59.0 54.8 63.1 65.4 62.3 57.1 54.9 57.5 53.8 51.6 57.7 Korea 57.3 54.5 56.9 56.1 57.5 56.3 55.3 52.7 56.7 55.6 54.0 46.4 50.6 Philippines 39.7 35.2 34.6 34.1 34.6 34.5 33.9 38.6 39.5 38.7 40.2 40.0 39.2 Sweden 38.9 36.0 36.3 35.0 34.9 35.2 35.0 34.8 34.4 34.9 33.9 33.6 32.6 Thailand 36.4 33.5 40.8 45.1 41.3 45.6 46.9 48.1 47.4 47.8 51.7 49.8 44.5 Netherlands 36.3 35.6 33.6 39.5 36.3 30.6 36.2 35.1 33.2 32.3 37.0 29.9 30.4 Kazakhstan 35.4 35.0 36.1 35.8 35.1 34.4 32.7 30.8 30.3 29.8 29.2 29.1 28.2 Colombia 35.2 33.8 34.8 33.1 33.5 33.1 32.9 32.9 30.5 32.9 33.0 34.0 32.9 Australia 33.4 35.4 33.9 34.9 35.3 33.8 31.2 31.8 31.7 31.0 33.8 33.7 34.1 Italy 30.6 29.5 30.8 30.8 31.3 31.2 32.0 31.0 30.8 30.4 30.3 30.2 29.4 Poland 28.0 28.5 29.4 29.6 29.5 29.9 30.5 30.3 30.7 31.2 30.9 31.4 31.2 Israel 26.7 26.5 26.4 25.9 26.1 26.5 26.1 26.2 26.0 24.2 23.7 20.0 21.6 Chile 24.7 26.4 27.0 26.7 27.2 26.8 26.4 28.5 27.9 27.1 26.1 25.9 26.2 Spain 21.1 21.7 21.8 22.3 23.2 21.8 22.3 22.9 23.1 23.2 23.0 22.8 22.6 Denmark 16.3 16.2 16.2 16.0 16.0 16.1 15.3 14.4 13.8 14.1 14.5 12.6 11.5 Vietnam 13.3 13.7 14.6 14.4 14.4 14.4 14.2 13.4 10.4 10.6 10.2 9.8 9.5 Peru 10.4 11.2 11.4 11.8 12.8 12.6 13.0 13.3 13.3 13.8 14.8 14.2 14.1 South Africa 10.3 10.9 10.3 11.9 14.4 15.4 14.2 14.6 11.4 11.5 11.3 11.7 10.6 All Other 176.6 179.2 182.3 187.5 193.9 190.7 195.9 198.8 187.6 185.8 191.2 194.0 188.1 Grand Total 6058.9 6066.4 6066.6 5997.4 6011.5 5974.6 5959.5 5948.4 5888.7 5841.4 5792.6 5716.8 5655.1 Of which: For. Official 4124.1 4139.9 4157.3 4111.7 4108.2 4092.2 4067.5 4053.8 4069.3 4068.0 4054.6 4074.2 4052.3 Treasury Bills 337.1 325.4 338.6 332.7 341.0 361.2 364.4 383.8 388.5 394.0 398.4 384.2 378.6 T-Bonds & Notes 3787.0 3814.5 3818.8 3779.0 3767.2 3731.0 3703.1 3670.0 3680.9 3674.0 3656.2 3690.1 3673.7 Department of the Treasury/Federal Reserve Board December 15, 2014 1/ Estimated foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury marketable and non-marketable bills, bonds, and notes reported monthly under the Treasury International Capital (TIC) reporting system. Holdings of Treasury bonds and notes are reported on TIC Form SLT, "Aggregate Holdings of Long-Term Securities by U.S. and Foreign Residents," including preliminary SLT data for the most recent month. The data in this table are collected primarily from U.S.-based custodians. Since U.S. securities held in overseas custody accounts may not be attributed to the actual owners, the data may not provide a precise accounting of individual country ownership of Treasury securities (see TIC FAQ #7 at: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Pages/ticfaq1.aspx). 2/ United Kingdom includes Channel Islands and Isle of Man. 3/ Oil exporters include Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Gabon, Libya, and Nigeria. 4/ Caribbean Banking Centers include Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Netherlands Antilles and Panama. Beginning with new series for June 2006, also includes British Virgin Islands.