🇺🇦 Ukraine vs 🇩🇪 Germany

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 13.8× as much as Ukraine — a gap of $3.22 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, Ukraine ranks 16th by debt-to-GDP and Germany 52nd. Measured per person, Ukraine is 60th and Germany 18th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Ukraine ranks 40th and Germany 7th among the 135 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 5.4× that in Ukraine ($41,660 vs $7,751 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Ukraine sits at 107% of GDP, well above Germany's 63%, meaning Ukraine 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: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($10K/sec vs $857/sec for Ukraine), adding roughly $821,664,000 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 2.6× Ukraine's (32M), 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.

Ukraine 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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