🇸🇩 Sudan vs 🇱🇾 Libya

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Sudan currently owes about 1.4× as much as Libya — a gap of $26.9 billion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Sudan ranks 2nd by debt-to-GDP and Libya 4th. Measured per person, Sudan is 101st and Libya 56th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Sudan ranks 60th and Libya 67th 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 Libya is roughly 5.0× that in Sudan ($9,397 vs $1,888 per person).

Both countries carry debt above 100% of GDP — Sudan at 204% and Libya at 154% — meaning each owes more than a full year's worth of national output. What that means for each depends on who holds the debt, in what currency and at what interest rate.

The gap between them is widening: Sudan's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($906/sec vs $79/sec for Libya), adding roughly $71,452,800 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Sudan's population (52M) is about 6.9× Libya's (8M), 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.

Sudan and Libya are both grouped under this site's “Africa” 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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