🇮🇳 India vs 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 967.1× as much as South Sudan — a gap of $3.36 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 South Sudan 70th. Measured per person, India is 122nd and South Sudan 186th.

Analysis

By total government debt, India ranks 8th and South Sudan 156th 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 India is roughly 8.1× that in South Sudan ($2,277 vs $280 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: India sits at 84% of GDP, well above South Sudan's 64%, 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 South Sudan at 64% 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 South Sudan about 6.5% ($77 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 −$3/sec for South Sudan), adding roughly $217,814,400 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.48B) is about 118.7× South Sudan's (12M), 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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