🇵🇰 Pakistan vs 🇪🇬 Egypt

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Egypt currently owes about 1.2× as much as Pakistan — a gap of $51.7 billion. 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 135 governments tracked here, Pakistan ranks 40th by debt-to-GDP and Egypt 30th. Measured per person, Pakistan is 112th and Egypt 93rd.

Analysis

By total government debt, Pakistan ranks 34th and Egypt 31st 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 Egypt is roughly 2.6× that in Pakistan ($3,302 vs $1,272 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Egypt sits at 87% of GDP, above Pakistan's 73%, meaning Egypt owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

Net of financial assets: the IMF puts Pakistan at 66% of GDP and Egypt at 82%, against 73% and 87% gross. Pakistan spends about 49% of government revenue on net interest ($31.8 billion in 2025), and Egypt about 61% ($35.8 billion in 2025). See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: Egypt's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($2K/sec vs $551/sec for Pakistan), adding roughly $103,766,400 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Pakistan's population (245M) is about 2.2× Egypt's (110M), 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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