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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland vs ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. South Korea currently owes about 3.1ร— more โ€” a gap of $709.4 billion. 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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South Korea
$1,051,423,469,448
Debt-to-GDP54%
Per citizen$20,337
Per second+$1,200
In nominal terms, South Korea carries the larger government debt โ€” roughly 3.1ร— that of Switzerland, a difference of $709.4 billion. Note that debt-to-GDP (Switzerland: 38%, South Korea: 54%) is the better measure of sustainability than the raw total.
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Source: Global Debt Clock, based on the IMF World Economic Outlook (April 2026, general government gross debt) and World Bank IDS.
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