🇪🇬 Egypt vs 🇵🇰 Pakistan

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Egypt currently owes about 1.2× as much as Pakistan — a gap of $51.7 billion. 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 135 governments tracked here, Egypt ranks 30th by debt-to-GDP and Pakistan 40th. Measured per person, Egypt is 93rd and Pakistan 112th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Egypt ranks 31st and Pakistan 34th 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 Egypt is roughly 2.6× that in Pakistan ($3,302 vs $1,272 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Egypt sits at 87% of GDP, above Pakistan's 73%, meaning Egypt 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 Egypt at 82% of GDP and Pakistan at 66%, against 87% and 73% gross. Egypt spends about 61% of government revenue on net interest ($35.8 billion in 2025), and Pakistan about 49% ($31.8 billion in 2025). See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: Egypt's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($2K/sec vs $551/sec for Pakistan), adding roughly $103,766,400 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Pakistan's population (245M) is about 2.2× Egypt's (110M), 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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