Own calculationDerivedReproducible — verified in test
Statsskuldens kostnad per sekund
Make the annual interest cost understandable as a rate.
- Data → operation → output
- The National Debt Office's latest published annual cost of the national debt → Cost per second = annual cost / 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days). → /ekonomi/statsskuld, /embed/statsskuld
- Primary sources
- Assumptions
- The cost is spread evenly over the year.
- Observed vs modelled
- The annual figure is observed; the per-second rate is a derivation and is labelled as a model.
- Uncertainty
- None. An arithmetic conversion of a published annual figure.
- Limitations
- Money does not move in real time — the rate is an illustration.
- Scope of validity
- Sweden, latest published year.
- Reproducibility
- A division of a published figure; tested.
- Version
- 1.0 · last verified 2026-09-14
- Code/data reference
src/lib/statsskuld/contracts.ts