🇹🇱 Timor-Leste vs 🇮🇳 India

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. India currently owes about 11302.3× as much as Timor-Leste — 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, Timor-Leste ranks 182nd by debt-to-GDP and India 39th. Measured per person, Timor-Leste is 191st and India 122nd.

Analysis

By total government debt, Timor-Leste ranks 184th 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 10.9× that in Timor-Leste ($2,277 vs $208 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: India sits at 84% of GDP, well above Timor-Leste's 13%, 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. Timor-Leste spends about 1.0% of government revenue on net interest ($9 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 $0.89/sec for Timor-Leste), adding roughly $217,478,304 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: India's population (1.48B) is about 1034.4× 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.

Timor-Leste and India are both grouped under this site's “Asia-Pacific” 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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