🇱🇾 Libya vs 🇸🇩 Sudan

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Sudan currently owes about 1.4× as much as Libya — a gap of $26.9 billion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Libya ranks 4th by debt-to-GDP and Sudan 2nd. Measured per person, Libya is 56th and Sudan 101st.

Analysis

By total government debt, Libya ranks 67th and Sudan 60th 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 Libya is roughly 5.0× that in Sudan ($9,397 vs $1,888 per person).

Both countries carry debt above 100% of GDP — Libya at 154% and Sudan at 204% — 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: Sudan's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($906/sec vs $79/sec for Libya), adding roughly $71,452,800 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Sudan's population (52M) is about 6.9× Libya's (8M), 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.

Libya and Sudan are both grouped under this site's “Africa” 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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