This article analyses the national debt by type of security and class of holder at the end of March 1969, and discusses some of the changes which took place during the preceding financial year. It also contains a short section in which the size of the national debt of the United Kingdom and of some other countries is compared with their respective national incomes. The article is one of an annual series, the first of which appeared in the June 1962 Bulletin, covering the financial years from 1957/58 onwards.
Distribution of the national debt March 1969