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Sources have different last observation dates; see facts."]},"dates":["2004-04-01","2004-07-01","2004-10-01","2005-01-01","2005-04-01","2005-07-01","2005-10-01","2006-01-01","2006-04-01","2006-07-01","2006-10-01","2007-01-01","2007-04-01","2007-07-01","2007-10-01","2008-01-01","2008-04-01","2008-07-01","2008-10-01","2009-01-01","2009-04-01","2009-07-01","2009-10-01","2010-01-01","2010-04-01","2010-07-01","2010-10-01","2011-01-01","2011-04-01","2011-07-01","2011-10-01","2012-01-01","2012-04-01","2012-07-01","2012-10-01","2013-01-01","2013-04-01","2013-07-01","2013-10-01","2014-01-01","2014-04-01","2014-07-01","2014-10-01","2015-01-01","2015-04-01","2015-07-01","2015-10-01","2016-01-01","2016-04-01","2016-07-01","2016-10-01","2017-01-01","2017-04-01","2017-07-01","2017-10-01","2018-01-01","2018-04-01","2018-07-01","2018-10-01","2019-01-01","2019-04-01","2019-07-01","2019-10-01","2020-01-01","2020-04-01","2020-07-01","2020-10-01","2021-01-01","2021-04-01","2021-07-01","2021-10-01","2022-01-01","2022-04-01","2022-07-01","2022-10-01","2023-01-01","2023-04-01","2023-07-01","2023-10-01","2024-01-01","2024-04-01","2024-07-01","2024-10-01","2025-01-01","2025-04-01","2025-07-01","2025-10-01"],"series":{"st_debt_bn":[5.902,6.09,6.864,17.723,17.868,20.014,19.9,19.539,20.881,23.568,25.648,28.13,30.454,35.879,39.016,45.738,49.33,50.575,46.268,null,42.186,42.895,46.603,null,56.439,60.526,61.142,null,68.474,71.53,75.995,null,80.451,84.663,93.349,96.697,96.759,94.761,92.707,91.678,90.074,86.993,85.574,85.498,83.625,84.799,81.567,83.504,82.21,81.344,83.933,88.1245,88.9815,92.8245,97.6086,102.173,98.6774,104.3496,103.9239,108.4155,109.7093,109.1365,106.7795,106.8778,105.0322,102.8403,103.5331,101.0813,102.4996,104.7566,114.6435,121.6883,126.0517,126.9436,127.8709,128.3788,123.5658,129.3202,127.0951,127.5891,131.9752,134.8601,140.0442,134.4888,134.6506,138.045,150.772],"gross_ext_debt_bn":[112.777,112.971,120.333,134.002,132.946,136.809,132.315,139.114,145.019,150.622,160.31,172.36,183.328,196.915,206.333,224.407,225.345,225.069,229.803,224.498,229.888,243.171,252.809,260.935,270.246,288.519,305.994,317.891,331.196,340.978,345.217,360.766,363.957,381.446,394.112,409.374,404.813,405.135,426.928,446.178,453.176,455.915,458.176,474.675,482.01,480.455,479.135,484.791,479.545,484.242,455.895,471.012,485.455,495.1317,513.0269,529.2782,514.4415,509.7656,521.202,543.1348,557.0572,557.5189,563.9638,558.372,555.2247,556.7942,563.7563,573.6631,575.2614,602.9004,613.1494,619.0755,612.8365,605.6412,611.8496,623.9278,628.7232,637.0638,648.7344,668.8569,681.6088,713.1763,718.6168,736.4127,746.8031,747.1792,765.5255],"st_debt_share_pct":[5.2333,5.3908,5.7042,13.2259,13.44,14.6292,15.0399,14.0453,14.3988,15.6471,15.999,16.3205,16.6118,18.2206,18.9092,20.3817,21.8909,22.4709,20.1338,null,18.3507,17.6399,18.4341,null,20.8843,20.9782,19.9814,null,20.6748,20.9779,22.0137,null,22.1045,22.1953,23.6859,23.6207,23.9021,23.39,21.7149,20.5474,19.8762,19.081,18.6771,18.0119,17.3492,17.6497,17.0238,17.2247,17.1433,16.7982,18.4106,18.7096,18.3295,18.7474,19.026,19.3042,19.1815,20.4701,19.9393,19.9611,19.6944,19.5754,18.9338,19.141,18.9171,18.4701,18.3649,17.6203,17.8179,17.3754,18.6975,19.6565,20.5686,20.9602,20.8991,20.5759,19.6534,20.2994,19.5912,19.0757,19.3623,18.9098,19.488,18.2627,18.0303,18.4755,19.6952],"reserves_bn":[119.407,118.769,131.178,140.907,138.89,143.059,137.206,151.622,162.912,165.305,177.251,199.179,213.486,247.762,275.559,309.161,311.79,291.819,254.613,252.326,264.584,279.91,283.499,277.042,276.98,291.595,297.334,303.482,309.02,311.482,296.6887,294.3975,289.9922,294.8122,296.5784,292.6465,284.6449,276.264,295.7085,303.6735,315.7787,314.1815,319.71,341.3781,355.2218,349.9785,352.0499,355.5597,360.7976,371.9903,360.2968,369.9547,386.5394,399.6567,409.3666,424.3611,406.0584,400.5251,393.4043,411.905,427.6788,433.5937,457.4677,475.5614,506.8376,542.0207,580.8408,579.2846,608.9992,638.6459,633.6143,617.6478,593.3226,532.6637,562.8514,578.4492,595.0514,586.9076,623.2004,645.5826,651.9973,704.8848,640.2785,665.3959,702.7844,700.2359,696.6104],"reserves_to_st_debt":[20.2316,19.5023,19.111,7.9505,7.7731,7.1479,6.8948,7.76,7.8019,7.014,6.9109,7.0807,7.0101,6.9055,7.0627,6.7594,6.3205,5.77,5.503,null,6.2718,6.5255,6.0833,null,4.9076,4.8177,4.863,null,4.513,4.3546,3.9041,null,3.6046,3.4822,3.1771,3.0264,2.9418,2.9154,3.1897,3.3124,3.5058,3.6116,3.7361,3.9928,4.2478,4.1272,4.3161,4.258,4.3887,4.5731,4.2927,4.1981,4.344,4.3055,4.194,4.1534,4.115,3.8383,3.7855,3.7993,3.8983,3.9729,4.2842,4.4496,4.8255,5.2705,5.6102,5.7309,5.9415,6.0965,5.5268,5.0757,4.707,4.1961,4.4017,4.5058,4.8157,4.5384,4.9034,5.0599,4.9403,5.2268,4.572,4.9476,5.2193,5.0725,4.6203]},"as_of":"2026-10-25"}