Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. United States currently owes about 6650.4× more — a gap of $39.90 trillion. Updated every second from IMF baselines.
By total government debt, Trinidad & Tobago ranks 127th-largest and United States ranks 1st-largest among the 137 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 national debt in United States is roughly 27.7× that in Trinidad & Tobago ($118,739 vs $4,286 per person).
The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: United States sits at 124% of GDP, well above Trinidad & Tobago's 68%, meaning United States owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.
The gap between them is widening: United States's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($60K/sec vs $0/sec for Trinidad & Tobago), adding roughly $5,201,280,000 to the difference each day.
Scale is part of the story too: United States's population (336M) is about 240.0× Trinidad & Tobago'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.
Trinidad & Tobago and United States are both grouped under this site's “Americas” 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.