🇧🇴 Bolivia vs 🇩🇪 Germany

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 64.2× as much as Bolivia — a gap of $3.42 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Bolivia ranks 34th by debt-to-GDP and Germany 52nd. Measured per person, Bolivia is 81st and Germany 18th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Bolivia ranks 74th and Germany 7th among the 135 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 Germany is roughly 9.8× that in Bolivia ($41,659 vs $4,238 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Bolivia sits at 83% of GDP, well above Germany's 63%, meaning Bolivia 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 ($10K/sec vs −$13/sec for Bolivia), adding roughly $896,832,000 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 6.5× Bolivia's (13M), 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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