🇦🇼 Aruba vs 🇨🇳 China

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. China currently owes about 7843.8× as much as Aruba — a gap of $22.03 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Net debt and interest: IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2026, general government, 2025, mostly IMF estimates. A dash means no comparable figure. How these are calculated.

Among the 194 governments tracked here, Aruba ranks 68th by debt-to-GDP and China 26th. Measured per person, Aruba is 30th and China 44th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Aruba ranks 160th and China 2nd among the 194 sovereigns tracked on this site.

On a per-citizen basis the picture can look different from the nominal totals: a resident's notional share of the government debt in Aruba is roughly 1.6× that in China ($25,774 vs $15,717 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: China sits at 99% of GDP, well above Aruba's 65%, meaning China owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

The IMF publishes no net debt figure for either. Aruba spends about 15% of government revenue on net interest ($167 million in 2025), and China about 3.8% ($188.9 billion in 2025). Aruba carries the lower debt ratio but the heavier interest bill: rates, currency and assets matter as well as the size of the debt. China's figures are on the IMF's narrow measure, which leaves out local government financing vehicles. See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: China's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($99K/sec vs −$2/sec for Aruba), adding roughly $8,582,112,000 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: China's population (1.40B) is about 12862.4× Aruba's (0M), which is part of why the nominal and per-capita comparisons above can point in different directions — a government's debt load scales loosely with the size of both its economy and its population, not either alone.

This analysis is generated automatically from live data as an educational orientation, not financial advice — see the methodology page for definitions and caveats.

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