🇮🇳 India vs 🇬🇭 Ghana

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 52.1× as much as Ghana — 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 Ghana 82nd. Measured per person, India is 97th and Ghana 105th.

Analysis

By total government debt, India ranks 8th and Ghana 69th 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 1.3× that in Ghana ($2,274 vs $1,806 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: India sits at 84% of GDP, well above Ghana's 49%, 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 $333/sec for Ghana), adding roughly $188,784,000 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.48B) is about 41.4× Ghana's (36M), 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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