🇺🇸 United States vs 🇲🇬 Madagascar

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. The United States currently owes about 3953.2× as much as Madagascar — a gap of $40.36 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 Madagascar 83rd. Measured per person, the United States is 2nd and Madagascar 133rd.

Analysis

By total government debt, the United States ranks 1st and Madagascar 124th 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 372.7× that in Madagascar ($117,750 vs $316 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: the United States sits at 124% of GDP, well above Madagascar's 48%, 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.

The gap between them is widening: the United States' debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($60K/sec vs $36/sec for Madagascar), adding roughly $5,198,169,600 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: the United States' population (343M) is about 10.6× Madagascar'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.

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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