🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇨🇳 China
Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. China currently owes about 5.5× more — a gap of $16.07 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.
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Germany
$3,589,627,822,318
Debt-to-GDP65%
Per citizen$42,531
Per second+$6,500
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China
$19,663,891,624,300
Debt-to-GDP88%
Per citizen$13,956
Per second+$25,000
In nominal terms, China carries the larger government debt — roughly 5.5× that of Germany, a difference of $16.07 trillion. Note that debt-to-GDP (Germany: 65%, China: 88%) is the better measure of sustainability than the raw total.
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