🇲🇭 Marshall Islands vs 🇩🇪 Germany

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 79099.6× as much as the Marshall Islands — a gap of $3.48 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Net debt and interest: IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2026, general government, 2025, mostly IMF estimates. A dash means no comparable figure. How these are calculated.

Among the 194 governments tracked here, the Marshall Islands ranks 188th by debt-to-GDP and Germany 71st. Measured per person, the Marshall Islands is 147th and Germany 18th.

Analysis

By total government debt, the Marshall Islands ranks 190th and Germany 7th among the 194 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 35.4× that in the Marshall Islands ($41,847 vs $1,183 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Germany sits at 63% of GDP, well above the Marshall Islands' 9%, meaning Germany owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

The IMF puts Germany at 47% of GDP net of financial assets, and publishes no net debt figure for the Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands spends about 0.2% of government revenue on net interest ($397 thousand in 2025), and Germany about 1.8% ($43.9 billion in 2025). See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($10K/sec vs $0.65/sec for the Marshall Islands), adding roughly $895,652,640 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 2235.7× the Marshall Islands' (0M), 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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