🇨🇷 Costa Rica vs 🇩🇪 Germany

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 49.9× as much as Costa Rica — a gap of $3.40 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Costa Rica ranks 59th by debt-to-GDP and Germany 52nd. Measured per person, Costa Rica is 46th and Germany 18th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Costa Rica ranks 68th and Germany 7th 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 Germany is roughly 3.2× that in Costa Rica ($41,715 vs $12,862 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Germany sits at 63% of GDP, above Costa Rica's 60%, meaning Germany 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: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($10K/sec vs $289/sec for Costa Rica), adding roughly $870,739,200 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 15.4× Costa Rica's (5M), 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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