Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 242.8× more — a gap of $3.47 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.
By total government debt, Laos ranks 106th-largest and India ranks 8th-largest among the 137 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 national debt in India is roughly 1.2× that in Laos ($2,415 vs $1,937 per person).
The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Laos sits at 91% of GDP, well above India's 82%, meaning Laos 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 ($7K/sec vs $32/sec for Laos), adding roughly $619,315,200 to the difference each day.
Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.44B) is about 194.7× Laos's (7M), 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.
Laos and India are both grouped under this site's “Asia-Pacific” 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.