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🇮🇱 Israel vs 🇩🇪 Germany

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 7.2× more — a gap of $2.94 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.

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Israel
$477,203,891,719
Debt-to-GDP69%
Per citizen$49,196
Per second+$2,669
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Germany
$3,418,304,490,134
Debt-to-GDP63%
Per citizen$40,501
Per second+$10,973
In nominal terms, Germany carries the larger government debt — roughly 7.2× that of Israel, a difference of $2.94 trillion. Note that debt-to-GDP (Israel: 69%, Germany: 63%) is the better measure of sustainability than the raw total.

Analysis

By total government debt, Israel ranks 23rd-largest and Germany ranks 7th-largest among the 137 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 national debt in Israel is roughly 1.2× that in Germany ($49,196 vs $40,501 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Israel sits at 69% of GDP, well above Germany's 63%, meaning Israel owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

The gap between them is widening: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($11K/sec vs $3K/sec for Israel), adding roughly $717,465,600 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (84M) is about 8.7× Israel's (10M), 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 (April 2026, general government gross debt) and World Bank IDS.
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