financial overlay · shown, not summed
As of July 10, 2026
Bonds & debt securities
$160 trillion
accreted
The world's tradable bonds — government and corporate debt securities (~$145T). Every bond is simultaneously someone's asset and someone else's liability, so it is shown but never added.
Value
$160T
current estimate
Share of Earth
—
of total global wealth
Update mode
accrete
how it is marked
In headline
No
context only — nets out
Bonds & debt securities over time
Value in US dollars (trillions), 2000-01 → present.
How it's valued
Tradable debt securities outstanding — government & corporate bonds (BIS/SIFMA) — context only.
Double-count treatment: A claim, not an asset, at the planetary level — nets to zero against the real capital it finances.