List of government bonds explained

This is a list of categories of government bonds around the world.

Main issuers

Currency	Generic Name or Nickname	Public sector debt 2022 (US dollar bn nominal equivalent)	Government financial liabilities as % of GDP (end 2022 - source : OECD)	Issuer	Internet site
Yen	JGBs	10,084	254.5%	Ministry of Finance (MoF)	Site
US dollar	US Treasuries	34,472	144.2%	Bureau of the Fiscal Service	Site
Euro	BTPs	2,941	148.5 %	Dipartimento del Tesoro	Site
Euro	OATs	3,484	117.3%	Agence France Trésor	Site
Euro	Bunds	2,732	65.4%	German Finance Agency	Site
Pound sterling	Gilts	4,803	104.5%	UK Debt Management Office	Site
Indian Rupee	G-sec	Not Found	Not Found	Reserve Bank of India	Site

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Country by country data

Asia

Issued by: Ministry of Strategy and Finance

Korea Treasury Bond (KTB)
Korea International Bond (KIB)
National Housing Bond (NHB)

Ministry of Strategy and Finance

Issued By: Ministry of Finance (Zaimu-shō)

Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs)
- Revenue Bonds/Straight Bonds
- Financing Bills
- Subsidy Bonds
- Subscription Bonds
- Contribution Bonds
- Demand Bonds (kofu kokusai)
- Index-linked Bonds (JGBi)

Ministry of Finance

Issued by: Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Government Bond Programme http://www.hkgb.gov.hk/en/overview/introduction.html

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Issued by: Ministry of Finance

Ministry of Finance http://www.mof.gov.cn/

Issued by: Reserve Bank of India

Government Securities(G-Secs)
State Development Loans(SDL's)

Government Bonds by RBI

Europe

Eurozone

Issued By: Österreichische Bundesfinanzierungsagentur, the Austrian Federal Financing Agency

Government Bonds
Debt Issuance Programme (DIP and DIP 144A)
Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN)
ATB-Programms

Österreichische Bundesfinanzierungsagentur

Issued By: Agentschap van de schuld/Agence de la Dette, the Belgian Debt Agency

Belgian Treasury Bills BTB - bills, tap-issued
Certificats de Trésorerie (CTs) - bills
Obligations linéaires ordinaires (OLOs) - bonds

Agentschap van de schuld/Agence de la Dette

Issued By: Valtiokonttori, the Finland State Treasury

Government Bonds
Yield Bonds
EMTN Programme
Government Treasury Bills

Valtiokonttori

Issued By: Agence France Trésor, the French Debt Agency

OATs
- BTFs - bills of up to 1 year maturities
- BTANs - 1 to 6 year notes
- Obligations assimilables du Trésor (OATs) - 7 to 50 year bonds
- TEC10 OATs - floating rate bonds indexed on constant 10year maturity OAT yields
- OATi - French inflation-indexed bonds
- OAT€i - Eurozone inflation-indexed bonds

Agence France Trésor

Issued By: German Finance Agency, the German Debt Agency

Bunds^[2]
- Unverzinsliche Schatzanweisungen (Bubills) - 6 and 12 month (zero coupon) Treasury discount paper
- Bundesschatzanweisungen (Schätze) - 2 year Federal Treasury notes
- Bundesobligationen (Bobls) - 5 year Federal notes
- inflationsindexierte Bundesobligationen (Bobl/ei) - 5 year inflation-linked Federal notes
- Bundesanleihen (Bunds) - 10 and 30 year Federal bonds
- inflationsindexierte Bundesanleihen (Bund/ei) - 10, 15 and 30 year inflation-linked Federal bonds

Federal Republic of Germany - Finance Agency

Issued By: Οργανισμός Διαχείρισης Δημοσίου Χρέους, the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA).

Negotiable debt : Euro 354bn on 31 March 2011^[3]

Debt Management Agency

Issued By: Dipartimento del Tesoro

Buoni Ordinari del Tesoro (BOTs) - bills up to 1 year
Certificati del Tesoro Zero Coupon (CTZ) - bills up to 2 year
Buoni del Tesoro Poliannuali (BTPs) - bonds
Certificati di Credito del Tesoro (CCTs) - floating rate notes
BTP Indicizzato all'Inflazione - inflation linked bonds linked to Eurozone inflation
BTP Italia - inflation linked bonds linked to Italian Inflation http://www.dt.tesoro.it/en/debito_pubblico/btp_italia/index.html

Dipartimento del Tesoro

Issued by: Agentschap van het ministerie van Financiën, the Dutch State Treasury Agency

DTC (Dutch Treasury Certificates) - bills
DSL (Dutch State Loans) - bonds

Dutch State Treasury Agency

Issued By: Tesoro Público, the Spanish Public Treasury

Letras del Tesoro - bills
Bonos del Estado - bonds 2–5 years
Obligaciones del Estado - bonds 5+ years

Tesoro Público

Non-Eurozone

Issued By: Ministry of Finance

Policy Statement

Issued By: Danmarks Nationalbank, the Danish National Bank

Nominelle obligationer - bonds.
Inflationsindekserede obligationer - bonds, index-linked
Skatkammerbeviser - treasury bonds

Udstedelsespapirer

Issued By: UK Debt Management Office

Gilts
- Conventional Gilts
- Index-linked Gilts
- Undated Gilts (The last of these were redeemed on 5 July 2015.)
- Gilt Strips

UK Debt Management Office

Issued By: Lánasýsla ríkisins, the Icelandic National Debt Management Agency

Bond information in English
National Debt Management Agency

Issued By: Ministerul Finanțelor Publice, the Public Finance Ministry

Certificate de trezorerie - bills, maturity up to a year
Obligațiuni de stat - bonds

Bond information in English from the Ministry of Public Finance

Issued By: Riksgäldskontoret, the Swedish National Debt Office

Riksgäldskontoret

Americas

Caribbean

Issued by: COFINA, Puerto Rico Government Development Bank

Puerto Rico Sales Tax Revenue Bonds

North America

Issued By: Bureau of the Fiscal Service

Treasury securities
- Treasury bill
- Treasury note
- Treasury bond
- TIPS
- Savings bond

Bureau of the Fiscal Service

Issued By:

Canada Bond - fixed rate
Real return bond (RRB) - inflation-indexed
Canada Savings Bond (CSB)
Ontario Savings Bond
Saskatchewan Savings Bond

References

Web site: OECD Statistics . 2016-05-13 . 2019-08-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190811212613/https://stats.oecd.org/ . dead .
http://www.deutsche-finanzagentur.de/en/institutional-investors/federal-securities/ website of German Government bonds
Web site: Ministry of Finance. 2011. HELLENIC REPUBLIC PUBLIC DEBT BULLETIN 61 (MARCH 2011). dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110809143846/http://www.minfin.gr/content-api/f/binaryChannel/minfin/datastore/b9/be/75/b9be75304eaa26e2c0deb75c428b8a899c506aaf/application/pdf/Bulletin_No61.pdf. 2011-08-09.