🇮🇳 India vs 🇧🇼 Botswana

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 384.3× as much as Botswana — a gap of $3.35 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, India ranks 39th by debt-to-GDP and Botswana 151st. Measured per person, India is 122nd and Botswana 112th.

Analysis

By total government debt, India ranks 8th and Botswana 141st 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 Botswana is roughly 1.5× that in India ($3,385 vs $2,277 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: India sits at 84% of GDP, well above Botswana's 34%, 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 Botswana at 33% of GDP net of financial assets, and publishes no net debt figure for India. India spends about 25% of government revenue on net interest ($200.5 billion in 2025), and Botswana about 5.0% ($252 million 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 $70/sec for Botswana), adding roughly $211,507,200 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.48B) is about 571.5× Botswana'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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