A deficit refers to a yearly budget short fall, and the national debt refers to the total amount of debt that a nation owes. So if you run a deficit of 200 million dollars for five years, at the end of five years your national debt would be 1 billion dollars (ignoring interest payments).
Each year there is a budget deficit, the difference between the about the government takes in vs how much it spends. When you add all of those deficits together (along with an occasional surplus) you get the national debt.
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