🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇰🇷 South Korea
Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 3.4× more — a gap of $2.54 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.
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Germany
$3,589,626,621,781
Debt-to-GDP65%
Per citizen$42,531
Per second+$6,500
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South Korea
$1,051,423,376,329
Debt-to-GDP54%
Per citizen$20,337
Per second+$1,200
In nominal terms, Germany carries the larger government debt — roughly 3.4× that of South Korea, a difference of $2.54 trillion. Note that debt-to-GDP (Germany: 65%, South Korea: 54%) is the better measure of sustainability than the raw total.
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