🇱🇧 Lebanon vs 🇧🇭 Bahrain

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Bahrain currently owes about 1.5× as much as Lebanon — a gap of $26.0 billion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Lebanon ranks 7th by debt-to-GDP and Bahrain 6th. Measured per person, Lebanon is 59th and Bahrain 15th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Lebanon ranks 79th and Bahrain 65th 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 Bahrain is roughly 5.5× that in Lebanon ($45,325 vs $8,222 per person).

Both countries carry debt above 100% of GDP — Lebanon at 139% and Bahrain at 144% — meaning each owes more than a full year's worth of national output. What that means for each depends on who holds the debt, in what currency and at what interest rate.

The gap between them is widening: Bahrain's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($136/sec vs $0/sec for Lebanon), adding roughly $11,750,400 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Lebanon's population (6M) is about 3.6× Bahrain's (2M), 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.

Lebanon and Bahrain are both grouped under this site's “Middle East” 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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