🇲🇽 Mexico vs 🇧🇷 Brazil

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Brazil currently owes about 1.9× as much as Mexico — a gap of $1.18 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Mexico ranks 54th by debt-to-GDP and Brazil 24th. Measured per person, Mexico is 55th and Brazil 50th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Mexico ranks 12th and Brazil 10th 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 Brazil is roughly 1.2× that in Mexico ($11,622 vs $9,738 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Brazil sits at 93% of GDP, well above Mexico's 62%, meaning Brazil 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: Brazil's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($14K/sec vs $7K/sec for Mexico), adding roughly $623,980,800 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Brazil's population (214M) is about 1.6× Mexico's (134M), 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.

Mexico and Brazil are both grouped under this site's “Americas” 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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