🇺🇸 United States vs 🇩🇯 Djibouti

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. The United States currently owes about 29046.8× as much as Djibouti — a gap of $40.66 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, the United States ranks 13th by debt-to-GDP and Djibouti 155th. Measured per person, the United States is 2nd and Djibouti 141st.

Analysis

By total government debt, the United States ranks 1st and Djibouti 172nd 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 the United States is roughly 90.6× that in Djibouti ($118,608 vs $1,310 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: the United States sits at 124% of GDP, well above Djibouti's 31%, meaning the United States owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

Net of financial assets: the IMF puts the United States at 97% of GDP and Djibouti at 31%, against 124% and 31% gross. The United States spends about 10% of government revenue on net interest ($980.6 billion in 2025), and Djibouti about 1.3% ($11 million in 2025). See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: the United States' debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($80K/sec vs −$0.25/sec for Djibouti), adding roughly $6,890,680,800 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: the United States' population (343M) is about 320.8× Djibouti'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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