🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis vs 🇺🇸 United States

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. The United States currently owes about 54966.4× as much as Saint Kitts and Nevis — a gap of $40.66 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, Saint Kitts and Nevis ranks 83rd by debt-to-GDP and the United States 13th. Measured per person, Saint Kitts and Nevis is 50th and the United States 2nd.

Analysis

By total government debt, Saint Kitts and Nevis ranks 179th and the United States 1st 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 the United States is roughly 8.3× that in Saint Kitts and Nevis ($118,608 vs $14,337 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: the United States sits at 124% of GDP, well above Saint Kitts and Nevis' 59%, meaning the United States owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

Net of financial assets: the IMF puts Saint Kitts and Nevis at 52% of GDP and the United States at 97%, against 59% and 124% gross. Saint Kitts and Nevis spends about 4.2% of government revenue on net interest ($14 million in 2025), and the United States about 10% ($980.6 billion in 2025). See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: the United States' debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($80K/sec vs $4/sec for Saint Kitts and Nevis), adding roughly $6,890,313,600 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: the United States' population (343M) is about 6644.3× Saint Kitts and Nevis' (0M), 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.

Saint Kitts and Nevis and the United States are both grouped under this site's “Americas” region, so this is, in effect, an intra-regional comparison as well.

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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