🇯🇵 Japan vs 🇦🇺 Australia
Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Japan currently owes about 7.8× more — a gap of $8.93 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.
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Japan
$10,232,483,349,827
Debt-to-GDP230%
Per citizen$82,520
Per second+$4,200
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Australia
$1,305,827,783,276
Debt-to-GDP51%
Per citizen$48,907
Per second+$1,400
In nominal terms, Japan carries the larger government debt — roughly 7.8× that of Australia, a difference of $8.93 trillion. Note that debt-to-GDP (Japan: 230%, Australia: 51%) is the better measure of sustainability than the raw total.
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