🇨🇭 Switzerland vs 🇯🇵 Japan
Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Japan currently owes about 29.9× more — a gap of $9.89 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.
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Switzerland
$342,000,000,000
Debt-to-GDP38%
Per citizen$38,864
Per secondstable
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Japan
$10,232,482,015,823
Debt-to-GDP230%
Per citizen$82,520
Per second+$4,200
In nominal terms, Japan carries the larger government debt — roughly 29.9× that of Switzerland, a difference of $9.89 trillion. Note that debt-to-GDP (Switzerland: 38%, Japan: 230%) is the better measure of sustainability than the raw total.
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