🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 1002.5× as much as South Sudan — 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 South Sudan 70th. Measured per person, Germany is 18th and South Sudan 186th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Germany ranks 7th and South Sudan 156th 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 149.7× that in South Sudan ($41,847 vs $280 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: South Sudan sits at 64% of GDP, above Germany's 63%, meaning South Sudan 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 South Sudan at 64%, against 63% and 64% gross. Germany spends about 1.8% of government revenue on net interest ($43.9 billion in 2025), and South Sudan about 6.5% ($77 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 −$3/sec for South Sudan), adding roughly $895,968,000 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 6.7× South Sudan's (12M), 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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