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2/27/2021 Preliminary Report on Foreign Holdings of U.S. Securities at End-June 2020 | U.S. Department of the Treasury U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Preliminary Report on Foreign Holdings of U.S. Securities at End-June 2020 February 26, 2021 WASHINGTON – Preliminary data from the June 2020 annual survey of foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities were released today on the Treasury website at http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Pages/shlreports.aspx. Final survey results, which will include additional detail as well as possible revisions to the preliminary data, will be reported on April 30, 2021. The survey was undertaken jointly by Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The next annual survey will cover holdings at the end of June 2021; preliminary data are expected to be released by February 28, 2022. Complementary surveys measuring U.S. holdings of foreign securities are also carried out annually. Data from the most recent survey, reporting on securities held at year-end 2020, are currently being processed. Preliminary results are expected to be reported by August 31, 2021. OVERALL PRELIMINARY RESULTS The survey measured the value of foreign holdings of U.S. securities as of June 30, 2020, to be $21,990 billion, with $9,178 billion held in U.S. equities, $11,564 billion held in U.S. longterm debt securities [1] (of which $1,482 billion are holdings of asset-backed securities (ABS) [2] and $10,083 billion are holdings of non-ABS securities), and $1,248 billion held in U.S. short-term debt securities. The previous survey, conducted as of June 30, 2019, measured the value of total foreign holdings of U.S. securities at $20,534 billion, with holdings of $8,630 billion in U.S. equities, $10,991 billion in U.S. long-term debt securities, and $913 billion in U.S. short-term debt securities (see Table A). [1]. Long-term debt securities have an original term-to-maturity of over one year. [2]. Asset-backed securities are backed by pools of assets, such as pools of residential home mortgages or credit card receivables, which give the security owners claims against the cash flows generated by the underlying assets. Unlike most other debt securities, these securities generally repay both principal and interest on a regular basis, reducing the principal outstanding with each payment https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0039 1/3 2/27/2021 Preliminary Report on Foreign Holdings of U.S. Securities at End-June 2020 | U.S. Department of the Treasury cycle. Table A. Foreign holdings of U.S. securities, by type of security, as of recent survey dates (Billions of Dollars) Type of security Long-term securities June 30, 2019 June 30, 2020 19,622 Equities 20,742 8,630 9,178 Long-term debt 10,991 11,564 Asset-backed 1,417 1,482 Other 9,575 10,083 Short-term debt securities Total Of which: Official 913 1,248 20,534 21,990 6,112 6,309 Table B. Foreign holdings of U.S. securities, by country and type of security, for the major investing countries into the U.S., as of June 30, 2020 Total Equities Long-term debt Short ABS Other -term 1 Japan 2,554 667 334 1,482 71 2 United Kingdom 1,986 1,019 69 819 79 3 Cayman Islands 1,905 1,060 105 614 125 4 Luxembourg 1,800 732 60 867 140 5 China, mainland [i] 1,569 233 236 1,065 34 6 Canada 1,335 971 53 282 29 7 Ireland 1,188 518 52 418 200 8 Switzerland 862 504 13 310 35 9 Belgium 859 59 21 732 46 1 Taiwan 699 79 269 345 6 1 Norway 468 325 * 141 1 1 Hong Kong 457 128 16 286 27 1 Netherlands 425 264 16 143 3 1 Germany 420 210 17 182 12 1 Korea, South 414 187 37 183 8 1 France 403 192 6 180 25 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0039 2/3 2/27/2021 Preliminary Report on Foreign Holdings of U.S. Securities at End-June 2020 | U.S. Department of the Treasury 1 Singapore 377 169 11 175 21 1 Bermuda 364 111 49 171 33 1 Australia 352 266 8 66 11 2 Kuwait 305 211 9 57 28 2 Saudi Arabia 279 133 4 106 36 2 Brazil 277 8 * 253 16 2 Sweden 238 194 * 43 1 2 India 189 6 * 152 31 2 British Virgin Islands 169 105 4 52 8 2,106 830 92 965 219 22,000 9,178 1,482 10,092 1,248 6,309 1,245 678 3,969 416 Rest of world Total of which: Foreign * Less than $500 million but more than zero. [i]. Excludes Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, which are reported separately. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0039 3/3
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