🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇧🇳 Brunei

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 13969.0× as much as Brunei — a gap of $3.48 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, Germany ranks 71st by debt-to-GDP and Brunei 193rd. Measured per person, Germany is 18th and Brunei 172nd.

Analysis

By total government debt, Germany ranks 7th and Brunei 186th 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 Germany is roughly 77.9× that in Brunei ($41,847 vs $537 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Germany sits at 63% of GDP, well above Brunei's 2%, 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 IMF puts Germany at 47% of GDP net of financial assets, and publishes no net debt figure for Brunei. Germany spends about 1.8% of government revenue on net interest ($43.9 billion in 2025), while Brunei takes in at least as much interest as it owes. See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($10K/sec vs $0.11/sec for Brunei), adding roughly $895,699,296 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 179.2× Brunei's (0M), 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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