🇹🇱 Timor-Leste vs 🇩🇪 Germany

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 11716.8× as much as Timor-Leste — 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, Timor-Leste ranks 182nd by debt-to-GDP and Germany 71st. Measured per person, Timor-Leste is 191st and Germany 18th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Timor-Leste ranks 184th 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 200.8× that in Timor-Leste ($41,847 vs $208 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Germany sits at 63% of GDP, well above Timor-Leste's 13%, 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 Timor-Leste. Timor-Leste spends about 1.0% of government revenue on net interest ($9 million in 2025), and Germany about 1.8% ($43.9 billion in 2025). See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($10K/sec vs $0.89/sec for Timor-Leste), adding roughly $895,631,904 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 58.3× Timor-Leste's (1M), 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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