🇨🇳 China vs 🇭🇹 Haiti

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. China currently owes about 5314.8× as much as Haiti — a gap of $21.88 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, China ranks 20th by debt-to-GDP and Haiti 134th. Measured per person, China is 41st and Haiti 132nd.

Analysis

By total government debt, China ranks 2nd and Haiti 133rd 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 China is roughly 48.2× that in Haiti ($15,611 vs $324 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: China sits at 99% of GDP, well above Haiti's 12%, meaning China 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: China's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($99K/sec vs $6/sec for Haiti), adding roughly $8,581,420,800 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: China's population (1.40B) is about 110.2× Haiti'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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