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🇳🇱 Netherlands vs 🇯🇵 Japan

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Japan currently owes about 16.0× more — a gap of $9.59 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.

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Netherlands
$641,229,079,396
Debt-to-GDP44%
Per citizen$35,823
Per second+$460
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Japan
$10,232,482,898,831
Debt-to-GDP230%
Per citizen$82,520
Per second+$4,200
In nominal terms, Japan carries the larger government debt — roughly 16.0× that of Netherlands, a difference of $9.59 trillion. Note that debt-to-GDP (Netherlands: 44%, Japan: 230%) is the better measure of sustainability than the raw total.
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Source: Global Debt Clock, based on the IMF World Economic Outlook (April 2026, general government gross debt) and World Bank IDS.
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