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🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 1607.6× as much as Saint Lucia — a gap of $3.48 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

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Germany
$3,484,910,391,832
Debt-to-GDP63%
Per citizen$41,847
Per second+$10,367
Net debt, % of GDP47%
Net interest, % of GDP0.9%
Interest, % of revenue1.8%
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Saint Lucia
$2,167,813,452
Debt-to-GDP78%
Per citizen$11,866
Per second+$4
Net debt, % of GDP—
Net interest, % of GDP3.2%
Interest, % of revenue14%

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.

In nominal terms, Germany carries the larger government debt — roughly 1607.6× that of Saint Lucia, a difference of $3.48 trillion. Debt-to-GDP (Germany: 63%, Saint Lucia: 78%) says more about the burden than the raw total does.

Among the 194 governments tracked here, Germany ranks 71st by debt-to-GDP and Saint Lucia 48th. Measured per person, Germany is 18th and Saint Lucia 56th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Germany ranks 7th and Saint Lucia 164th 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 3.5× that in Saint Lucia ($41,847 vs $11,866 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Saint Lucia sits at 78% of GDP, above Germany's 63%, meaning Saint Lucia 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 Saint Lucia. Germany spends about 1.8% of government revenue on net interest ($43.9 billion in 2025), and Saint Lucia about 14% ($86 million 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 $4/sec for Saint Lucia), adding roughly $895,363,200 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 455.8× Saint Lucia'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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Source: Global Debt Clock, based on the IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026, general government gross debt).
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