🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇬🇦 Gabon

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 163.7× as much as Gabon — a gap of $3.46 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 Gabon 42nd. Measured per person, Germany is 18th and Gabon 70th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Germany ranks 7th and Gabon 108th 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 4.6× that in Gabon ($41,847 vs $9,036 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Gabon sits at 84% of GDP, well above Germany's 63%, meaning Gabon 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 Gabon. Germany spends about 1.8% of government revenue on net interest ($43.9 billion in 2025), and Gabon about 26% ($1.1 billion in 2025). See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($10K/sec vs $106/sec for Gabon), adding roughly $886,550,400 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 35.4× Gabon'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.

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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