🇸🇱 Sierra Leone vs 🇮🇳 India

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 794.8× as much as Sierra Leone — a gap of $3.36 trillion. 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 194 governments tracked here, Sierra Leone ranks 107th by debt-to-GDP and India 39th. Measured per person, Sierra Leone is 176th and India 122nd.

Analysis

By total government debt, Sierra Leone ranks 152nd and India 8th among the 194 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 4.8× that in Sierra Leone ($2,277 vs $470 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: India sits at 84% of GDP, well above Sierra Leone's 51%, 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 IMF publishes no net debt figure for either. Sierra Leone spends about 36% of government revenue on net interest ($355 million in 2025), and India about 25% ($200.5 billion in 2025). See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: India's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($3K/sec vs $10/sec for Sierra Leone), adding roughly $216,691,200 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.48B) is about 164.0× Sierra Leone's (9M), 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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