Value of Treasury Securities Attributed to Major Investing Country (June 2011) 				
				
Billions of dollars				
China, Mainland	" $1,307 "			
Japan	 $882 	
Brazil	 $216 
Middle East oil exporters	 $189 
Russia  $152
Taiwan  $147
United Kingdom	 $130
Luxembourg	 $124 	
Switzerland	 $118 
Hong Kong   $112
Cayman Islands $111
Belgium  $89


	
Source: Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
 
Notes: Countries on the map represent approximately 75 percent of foreign-held Treasury securities. Data from  Report on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities as of June 30,2011. Map from Map Resources. China refers to Mainland China and not Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan. Middle East oil exporters are Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates; the holdings for individual oil exporting countries are not available.