🇬🇲 Gambia vs 🇩🇪 Germany

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 1710.3× as much as the Gambia — 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, the Gambia ranks 52nd by debt-to-GDP and Germany 71st. Measured per person, the Gambia is 164th and Germany 18th.

Analysis

By total government debt, the Gambia ranks 167th and Germany 7th 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 60.2× that in the Gambia ($41,847 vs $695 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: the Gambia sits at 74% of GDP, above Germany's 63%, meaning the Gambia owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

The IMF puts Germany at 47% of GDP net of financial assets, and publishes no net debt figure for the Gambia. The Gambia spends about 14% of government revenue on net interest ($86 million in 2025), and Germany about 1.8% ($43.9 billion 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 −$0.47/sec for the Gambia), adding roughly $895,749,408 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 28.4× the Gambia's (3M), 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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