🇵🇰 Pakistan vs 🇮🇳 India

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 10.8× as much as Pakistan — a gap of $3.05 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Pakistan ranks 40th by debt-to-GDP and India 31st. Measured per person, Pakistan is 112th and India 97th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Pakistan ranks 34th and India 8th 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 India is roughly 1.8× that in Pakistan ($2,275 vs $1,270 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: India sits at 84% of GDP, above Pakistan's 73%, meaning India 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: India's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($3K/sec vs $551/sec for Pakistan), adding roughly $169,948,800 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.48B) is about 6.0× Pakistan's (245M), 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.

Pakistan and India are both grouped under this site's “Asia-Pacific” 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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