🇷🇺 Russia vs 🇹🇷 Turkey

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Russia currently owes about 1.3× as much as Turkey — a gap of $125.6 billion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Russia ranks 132nd by debt-to-GDP and Turkey 127th. Measured per person, Russia is 84th and Turkey 77th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Russia ranks 21st and Turkey 27th 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 Turkey is roughly 1.3× that in Russia ($4,668 vs $3,683 per person).

Both sit below 60% of GDP, the EU's Maastricht reference value — Russia at 17% and Turkey at 24%. A low ratio is not on its own a sign of strength: some governments borrow little because lenders will not lend to them.

The gap between them is widening: Russia's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($4K/sec vs $913/sec for Turkey), adding roughly $265,507,200 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Russia's population (143M) is about 1.7× Turkey's (86M), 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.

Russia and Turkey are both grouped under this site's “Europe” 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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