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🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇺🇸 United States

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. United States currently owes about 11.1× more — a gap of $36.11 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.

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Germany
$3,589,626,629,009
Debt-to-GDP65%
Per citizen$42,531
Per second+$6,500
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United States
$39,702,572,779,437
Debt-to-GDP124%
Per citizen$118,145
Per second+$60,200
In nominal terms, United States carries the larger government debt — roughly 11.1× that of Germany, a difference of $36.11 trillion. Note that debt-to-GDP (Germany: 65%, United States: 124%) is the better measure of sustainability than the raw total.
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Source: Global Debt Clock, based on the IMF World Economic Outlook (April 2026, general government gross debt) and World Bank IDS.
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