🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 27.0× as much as Nigeria — a gap of $3.34 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Germany ranks 52nd by debt-to-GDP and Nigeria 107th. Measured per person, Germany is 18th and Nigeria 127th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Germany ranks 7th and Nigeria 54th among the 135 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 78.7× that in Nigeria ($41,660 vs $529 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Germany sits at 63% of GDP, well above Nigeria's 36%, meaning Germany owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

The gap between them is widening: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($10K/sec vs $926/sec for Nigeria), adding roughly $815,702,400 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Nigeria's population (243M) is about 2.9× Germany's (83M), 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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