🇸🇲 San Marino vs 🇩🇪 Germany

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 2535.3× as much as San Marino — a gap of $3.48 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, San Marino ranks 79th by debt-to-GDP and Germany 71st. Measured per person, San Marino is 21st and Germany 18th.

Analysis

By total government debt, San Marino ranks 173rd and Germany 7th 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 Germany is roughly 1.0× that in San Marino ($41,847 vs $39,912 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Germany sits at 63% of GDP, above San Marino's 60%, meaning Germany owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

The IMF puts Germany at 47% of GDP net of financial assets, and publishes no net debt figure for San Marino. San Marino spends about 9.7% of government revenue on net interest ($47 million in 2025), and Germany about 1.8% ($43.9 billion in 2025). San Marino carries the lower debt ratio but the heavier interest bill: rates, currency and assets matter as well as the size of the debt. See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($10K/sec vs $1/sec for San Marino), adding roughly $895,622,400 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 2418.1× San Marino's (0M), 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.

San Marino and Germany 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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