Frankly, the OECD is pissing me off this morning.  I am searching for the national public indebtedness link, which is an excel table detailing public indebtedness of OECD member countries.  I used to be able to find it on their web site as table EO82 in the Public Sector section.  Now it is gone and I am losing patience trying to hunt it down again.

I do have the excel file from September, however.  I put together a graph of the gross financial liabilities relative to GDP for selected countries. 

The data is not entirely consistent, given that certain debt components are treated different, i.e. the funded status of government pension plans for example.  However, they are fairly comparable.

The data set was compiled a few months ago and does not include all the debt that will be piled on in response to the credit crisis.

Of the 29 member countries in the OECD, the United States ranked 9th highest in terms of relative gross indebtedness.