🇱🇰 Sri Lanka vs 🇮🇳 India

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 31.9× as much as Sri Lanka — a gap of $3.25 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Sri Lanka ranks 21st by debt-to-GDP and India 31st. Measured per person, Sri Lanka is 76th and India 97th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Sri Lanka ranks 58th and India 8th 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 Sri Lanka is roughly 2.1× that in India ($4,820 vs $2,274 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Sri Lanka sits at 97% of GDP, above India's 84%, meaning Sri Lanka 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 ($3K/sec vs $0.78/sec for Sri Lanka), adding roughly $217,487,808 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.48B) is about 67.5× Sri Lanka's (22M), 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.

Sri Lanka 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.

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