🇺🇸 United States vs 🇧🇭 Bahrain

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. The United States currently owes about 544.8× as much as Bahrain — a gap of $40.30 trillion. Updated every second from each country's baseline figure; sources below.

Among the 135 governments tracked here, the United States ranks 12th by debt-to-GDP and Bahrain 6th. Measured per person, the United States is 2nd and Bahrain 15th.

Analysis

By total government debt, the United States ranks 1st and Bahrain 65th 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 the United States is roughly 2.6× that in Bahrain ($117,750 vs $45,325 per person).

Both countries carry debt above 100% of GDP — the United States at 124% and Bahrain at 144% — meaning each owes more than a full year's worth of national output. What that means for each depends on who holds the debt, in what currency and at what interest rate.

The gap between them is widening: the United States' debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($60K/sec vs $136/sec for Bahrain), adding roughly $5,189,529,600 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: the United States' population (343M) is about 209.7× Bahrain's (2M), 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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