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🇫🇷 France vs 🇯🇵 Japan

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Japan currently owes about 2.4× more — a gap of $5.95 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.

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France
$4,287,224,570,574
Debt-to-GDP118%
Per citizen$62,679
Per second+$6,300
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Japan
$10,232,483,047,049
Debt-to-GDP230%
Per citizen$82,520
Per second+$4,200
In nominal terms, Japan carries the larger government debt — roughly 2.4× that of France, a difference of $5.95 trillion. Note that debt-to-GDP (France: 118%, Japan: 230%) 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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