🇰🇪 Kenya vs 🇩🇪 Germany

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 32.2× as much as Kenya — a gap of $3.36 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Kenya ranks 41st by debt-to-GDP and Germany 52nd. Measured per person, Kenya is 99th and Germany 18th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Kenya ranks 57th and Germany 7th 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 Germany is roughly 21.0× that in Kenya ($41,659 vs $1,983 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Kenya sits at 71% of GDP, above Germany's 63%, meaning Kenya 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: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($10K/sec vs $423/sec for Kenya), adding roughly $859,161,600 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 1.5× Kenya's (54M), 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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