🇨🇦 Canada vs 🇯🇵 Japan
Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Japan currently owes about 3.6× more — a gap of $7.43 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.
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Canada
$2,805,462,127,094
Debt-to-GDP113%
Per citizen$69,962
Per second+$3,200
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Japan
$10,232,481,541,811
Debt-to-GDP230%
Per citizen$82,520
Per second+$4,200
In nominal terms, Japan carries the larger government debt — roughly 3.6× that of Canada, a difference of $7.43 trillion. Note that debt-to-GDP (Canada: 113%, Japan: 230%) is the better measure of sustainability than the raw total.
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