MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES (in billions of dollars) HOLDINGS 1/ AT END OF PERIOD Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Country 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ China, Mainland 1269.7 1264.9 1268.4 1270.9 1263.2 1272.1 1272.9 1275.6 1270.1 1316.7 1304.5 1293.8 1268.1 Japan 1230.1 1219.0 1219.5 1220.1 1209.7 1200.2 1210.8 1201.4 1182.5 1186.4 1174.4 1178.1 1149.1 Belgium 359.9 352.6 364.1 362.4 366.4 381.4 341.2 310.3 256.8 200.6 180.3 172.5 166.8 Carib Bkg Ctrs 4/ 313.9 313.5 308.3 310.9 308.3 312.5 301.0 298.2 294.2 290.9 291.9 300.9 301.9 Oil Exporters 3/ 267.5 261.3 262.1 257.9 255.4 247.4 243.8 246.5 238.3 236.2 236.8 245.7 246.5 Brazil 261.7 258.6 253.7 250.1 245.8 245.3 243.9 246.0 245.4 246.9 246.7 249.2 252.9 Switzerland 189.1 184.2 175.9 174.0 177.6 175.8 168.2 173.8 176.7 176.6 174.3 177.2 181.2 Taiwan 172.9 175.4 179.4 174.4 175.7 176.4 180.0 179.1 182.2 183.7 184.5 185.9 183.6 United Kingdom 2/ 172.8 173.1 173.7 179.9 185.5 176.5 175.7 163.2 163.7 161.5 158.5 158.3 159.2 Hong Kong 160.5 158.7 158.2 155.8 155.1 155.7 160.4 160.3 158.8 141.7 137.3 126.5 126.5 Luxembourg 150.5 145.6 146.2 142.0 141.5 145.3 136.9 135.6 134.6 130.4 133.3 141.1 143.8 Russia 118.1 114.5 113.9 111.4 116.4 100.4 126.2 131.8 138.6 139.9 149.9 140.5 136.0 Ireland 106.8 106.0 113.0 108.0 112.2 113.4 112.4 109.9 125.5 116.9 110.9 111.3 120.0 Singapore 106.3 101.0 98.1 97.5 93.1 91.3 87.4 85.9 86.2 87.2 86.3 80.3 79.4 Norway 87.0 84.8 86.7 85.3 85.6 88.2 89.7 88.2 87.3 82.3 78.4 72.2 71.7 India 80.4 79.7 72.9 70.1 68.7 70.2 67.0 68.1 68.5 63.9 59.9 56.8 57.0 Mexico 75.2 73.5 72.8 72.8 70.6 68.9 68.9 67.2 65.1 59.5 61.8 63.8 60.4 Turkey 73.4 54.9 52.8 53.2 50.5 50.9 49.6 48.9 52.2 53.4 51.5 54.3 58.4 Germany 69.4 65.0 68.0 62.8 63.0 63.0 61.3 63.9 67.3 64.3 60.7 61.9 58.7 Canada 64.9 66.3 65.2 62.7 60.6 60.1 59.3 55.5 55.9 57.0 58.0 62.4 60.4 France 59.0 54.8 63.1 65.4 62.3 57.1 54.9 57.5 53.8 51.6 57.7 54.5 51.9 Korea 56.9 56.1 57.5 56.3 55.3 52.7 56.7 55.6 54.0 46.4 50.6 55.5 50.0 Thailand 40.8 45.1 41.3 45.6 46.9 48.1 47.4 47.8 51.7 49.8 44.5 38.9 40.1 Sweden 36.3 35.0 34.9 35.2 35.0 34.8 34.4 34.9 33.9 33.6 32.6 32.6 33.4 Kazakhstan 36.1 35.8 35.1 34.4 32.7 30.8 30.3 29.8 29.2 29.1 28.2 27.0 27.8 Colombia 34.8 33.1 33.5 33.1 32.9 32.9 30.5 32.9 33.0 34.0 32.9 33.4 33.0 Philippines 34.6 34.1 34.6 34.5 33.9 38.6 39.5 38.7 40.2 40.0 39.2 38.1 38.6 Australia 33.9 34.9 35.3 33.8 31.2 31.8 31.7 31.0 33.8 33.7 34.1 34.2 32.9 Netherlands 33.6 39.5 36.3 30.6 36.2 35.1 33.2 32.3 37.0 29.9 30.4 32.2 31.0 Italy 30.8 30.8 31.3 31.2 32.0 31.0 30.8 30.4 30.3 30.2 29.4 28.8 28.8 Poland 29.4 29.6 29.5 29.9 30.5 30.3 30.7 31.2 30.9 31.4 31.2 30.8 32.0 Chile 27.0 26.7 27.2 26.8 26.4 28.5 27.9 27.1 26.1 25.9 26.2 26.7 28.0 Israel 26.4 25.9 26.1 26.5 26.1 26.2 26.0 24.2 23.7 20.0 21.6 21.9 23.1 Spain 21.8 22.3 23.2 21.8 22.3 22.9 23.1 23.2 23.0 22.8 22.6 21.5 22.1 Denmark 16.2 16.0 16.0 16.1 15.3 14.4 13.8 14.1 14.5 12.6 11.5 11.6 13.3 Vietnam 14.6 14.4 14.4 14.4 14.2 13.4 10.4 10.6 10.2 9.8 9.5 9.4 9.6 Peru 11.4 11.8 12.8 12.6 13.0 13.3 13.3 13.8 14.8 14.2 14.1 14.5 15.0 South Africa 10.3 11.9 14.4 15.4 14.2 14.6 11.4 11.5 11.3 11.7 10.6 13.8 13.2 All Other 182.3 187.5 193.9 190.7 195.9 198.8 187.7 185.8 191.2 194.0 188.1 194.7 190.3 Grand Total 6066.6 5998.0 6013.2 5976.5 5961.1 5950.0 5890.6 5841.8 5792.6 5716.8 5655.1 5652.8 5595.8 Of which: For. Official 4157.3 4111.7 4108.2 4092.2 4067.5 4053.8 4069.3 4068.0 4054.6 4074.2 4052.3 4015.4 3974.5 Treasury Bills 338.6 332.7 341.0 361.2 364.4 383.8 388.5 394.0 398.4 384.2 378.6 370.6 373.2 T-Bonds & Notes 3818.8 3779.0 3767.2 3731.0 3703.1 3670.0 3680.9 3674.0 3656.2 3690.1 3673.7 3644.8 3601.3 Department of the Treasury/Federal Reserve Board, October 16, 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.