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🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇦🇱 Albania

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 213.0× as much as Albania — a gap of $3.45 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

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Germany
$3,469,358,458,439
Debt-to-GDP63%
Per citizen$41,660
Per second+$10,367
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Albania
$16,287,233,360
Debt-to-GDP54%
Per citizen$6,943
Per second+$4
In nominal terms, Germany carries the larger government debt — roughly 213.0× that of Albania, a difference of $3.45 trillion. Debt-to-GDP (Germany: 63%, Albania: 54%) says more about the burden than the raw total does.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Germany ranks 52nd by debt-to-GDP and Albania 70th. Measured per person, Germany is 18th and Albania 67th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Germany ranks 7th and Albania 107th 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 6.0× that in Albania ($41,660 vs $6,943 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Germany sits at 63% of GDP, above Albania's 54%, 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 $4/sec for Albania), adding roughly $895,363,200 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 35.5× Albania's (2M), 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.

Germany and Albania 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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Source: Global Debt Clock, based on the IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026, general government gross debt).
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