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🇱🇧 Lebanon vs 🇩🇪 Germany

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 72.2× as much as Lebanon — a gap of $3.43 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

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Lebanon
$48,089,816,024
Debt-to-GDP139%
Per citizen$8,222
Per secondnot estimated
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Germany
$3,474,130,407,002
Debt-to-GDP63%
Per citizen$41,717
Per second+$10,367
In nominal terms, Germany carries the larger government debt — roughly 72.2× that of Lebanon, a difference of $3.43 trillion. Debt-to-GDP (Lebanon: 139%, Germany: 63%) says more about the burden than the raw total does.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Lebanon ranks 7th by debt-to-GDP and Germany 52nd. Measured per person, Lebanon is 59th and Germany 18th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Lebanon ranks 79th 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 5.1× that in Lebanon ($41,717 vs $8,222 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Lebanon sits at 139% of GDP, well above Germany's 63%, meaning Lebanon 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 $0/sec for Lebanon), adding roughly $895,708,800 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 14.2× Lebanon's (6M), 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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Source: Global Debt Clock, based on the IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026, general government gross debt).
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