🇮🇳 India vs 🇨🇷 Costa Rica

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 48.2× as much as Costa Rica — a gap of $3.29 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, India ranks 31st by debt-to-GDP and Costa Rica 59th. Measured per person, India is 97th and Costa Rica 46th.

Analysis

By total government debt, India ranks 8th and Costa Rica 68th among the 135 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 Costa Rica is roughly 5.7× that in India ($12,862 vs $2,275 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: India sits at 84% of GDP, well above Costa Rica's 60%, 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 gap between them is widening: India's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($3K/sec vs $289/sec for Costa Rica), adding roughly $192,585,600 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.48B) is about 272.7× Costa Rica's (5M), 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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