🇮🇳 India vs 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 64.2× as much as Ethiopia — a gap of $3.31 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 Ethiopia 92nd. Measured per person, India is 97th and Ethiopia 129th.

Analysis

By total government debt, India ranks 8th and Ethiopia 78th 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 India is roughly 4.9× that in Ethiopia ($2,274 vs $465 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: India sits at 84% of GDP, well above Ethiopia's 43%, 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 −$94/sec for Ethiopia), adding roughly $225,676,800 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.48B) is about 13.1× Ethiopia's (112M), 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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