🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea vs 🇮🇳 India

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 718.4× as much as Equatorial Guinea — a gap of $3.36 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

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Equatorial Guinea
$4,679,390,572
Debt-to-GDP35%
Per citizen$2,780
Per second+$5
Net debt, % of GDP22%
Net interest, % of GDP0.8%
Interest, % of revenue5.0%
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India
$3,361,622,672,584
Debt-to-GDP84%
Per citizen$2,277
Per second+$2,518
Net debt, % of GDP—
Net interest, % of GDP5.1%
Interest, % of revenue25%

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.

In nominal terms, India carries the larger government debt — roughly 718.4× that of Equatorial Guinea, a difference of $3.36 trillion. Debt-to-GDP (Equatorial Guinea: 35%, India: 84%) says more about the burden than the raw total does.

Among the 194 governments tracked here, Equatorial Guinea ranks 148th by debt-to-GDP and India 39th. Measured per person, Equatorial Guinea is 116th and India 122nd.

Analysis

By total government debt, Equatorial Guinea ranks 150th and India 8th 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 Equatorial Guinea is roughly 1.2× that in India ($2,780 vs $2,277 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: India sits at 84% of GDP, well above Equatorial Guinea's 35%, meaning India 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 Equatorial Guinea at 22% of GDP net of financial assets, and publishes no net debt figure for India. Equatorial Guinea spends about 5.0% of government revenue on net interest ($104 million in 2025), and India about 25% ($200.5 billion in 2025). See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: India's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($3K/sec vs $5/sec for Equatorial Guinea), adding roughly $217,123,200 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.48B) is about 877.2× Equatorial Guinea's (2M), 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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Source: Global Debt Clock, based on the IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026, general government gross debt).
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