🇨🇭 Switzerland vs 🇹🇷 Turkey

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Switzerland currently owes about 1.1× as much as Turkey — a gap of $30.1 billion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Switzerland ranks 98th by debt-to-GDP and Turkey 127th. Measured per person, Switzerland is 13th and Turkey 77th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Switzerland ranks 25th and Turkey 27th 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 Switzerland is roughly 10.2× that in Turkey ($47,417 vs $4,668 per person).

Both sit below 60% of GDP, the EU's Maastricht reference value — Switzerland at 40% and Turkey at 24%. A low ratio is not on its own a sign of strength: some governments borrow little because lenders will not lend to them.

The gap between them is narrowing: Turkey's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($913/sec vs $304/sec for Switzerland), closing the difference by roughly $52,617,600 per day. At that pace — and holding both growth rates constant, a simplification, since real-world rates shift with fiscal policy — the two would reach a similar total in roughly 2 years.

Scale is part of the story too: Turkey's population (86M) is about 9.5× Switzerland's (9M), 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.

Switzerland and Turkey 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.

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