🇨🇻 Cabo Verde vs 🇮🇳 India

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 909.1× as much as Cabo Verde — a gap of $3.36 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Net debt and interest: IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2026, general government, 2025, mostly IMF estimates. A dash means no comparable figure. How these are calculated.

Among the 194 governments tracked here, Cabo Verde ranks 15th by debt-to-GDP and India 39th. Measured per person, Cabo Verde is 82nd and India 122nd.

Analysis

By total government debt, Cabo Verde ranks 155th and India 8th among the 194 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 Cabo Verde is roughly 3.1× that in India ($7,153 vs $2,277 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Cabo Verde sits at 115% of GDP, well above India's 84%, meaning Cabo Verde owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

The IMF puts Cabo Verde at 104% of GDP net of financial assets, and publishes no net debt figure for India. Cabo Verde spends about 7.1% of government revenue on net interest ($61 million in 2025), and India about 25% ($200.5 billion in 2025). India carries the lower debt ratio but the heavier interest bill: rates, currency and assets matter as well as the size of the debt. See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: India's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($3K/sec vs $6/sec for Cabo Verde), adding roughly $217,036,800 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.48B) is about 2856.5× Cabo Verde's (1M), 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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