🇲🇹 Malta vs 🇺🇸 United States

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. The United States currently owes about 2901.1× as much as Malta — a gap of $40.36 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Malta ranks 87th by debt-to-GDP and the United States 12th. Measured per person, Malta is 30th and the United States 2nd.

Analysis

By total government debt, Malta ranks 114th and the United States 1st 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 the United States is roughly 5.0× that in Malta ($117,750 vs $23,786 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: the United States sits at 124% of GDP, well above Malta's 46%, meaning the United States 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: the United States' debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($60K/sec vs $41/sec for Malta), adding roughly $5,197,737,600 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: the United States' population (343M) is about 586.0× Malta's (1M), 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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