Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 451.4× more — a gap of $3.60 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.
By total government debt, Bosnia & Herzegovina ranks 121st-largest and Germany ranks 6th-largest among the 137 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 national debt in Germany is roughly 17.1× that in Bosnia & Herzegovina ($42,787 vs $2,500 per person).
The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Germany sits at 65% of GDP, well above Bosnia & Herzegovina's 34%, meaning Germany owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.
The gap between them is widening: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($7K/sec vs $0/sec for Bosnia & Herzegovina), adding roughly $561,600,000 to the difference each day.
Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (84M) is about 26.4× Bosnia & Herzegovina's (3M), 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.
Bosnia & Herzegovina and Germany are both grouped under this site's “Europe” region, so this is, in effect, an intra-regional comparison as well.
This analysis is generated automatically from live data as an educational orientation, not financial advice — see the methodology page for definitions and caveats.