national debt

1. N-COUNT A country's national debt is all the money that the government of the country has borrowed and still owes. 國債[usu sing]

He talked about the importance of reducing the national debt. 他談了減少國債的重要性。

No wonder then that the national debts of all the civilized countries in the world are reaching astronomical proportions. 難怪世界上所有文明國家的國債都近乎天文數字。