🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇲🇷 Mauritania

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 643.8× as much as Mauritania — 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 Mauritania 134th. Measured per person, Germany is 18th and Mauritania 151st.

Analysis

By total government debt, Germany ranks 7th and Mauritania 147th 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 36.6× that in Mauritania ($41,847 vs $1,144 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Germany sits at 63% of GDP, well above Mauritania's 40%, meaning Germany owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

Net of financial assets: the IMF puts Germany at 47% of GDP and Mauritania at 37%, against 63% and 40% gross. Germany spends about 1.8% of government revenue on net interest ($43.9 billion in 2025), and Mauritania about 3.2% ($92 million in 2025). Mauritania carries the lower debt ratio but the heavier interest bill: rates, currency and assets matter as well as the size of the debt. See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($10K/sec vs $12/sec for Mauritania), adding roughly $894,672,000 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 17.6× Mauritania's (5M), 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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