🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines vs 🇩🇪 Germany

Live side-by-side comparison of government debt. Germany currently owes about 2471.3× as much as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — a gap of $3.48 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, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ranks 18th by debt-to-GDP and Germany 71st. Measured per person, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is 54th and Germany 18th.

Analysis

By total government debt, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ranks 171st and Germany 7th 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 Germany is roughly 3.3× that in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ($41,847 vs $12,663 per person).

The debt-to-GDP picture is asymmetric here: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines sits at 108% of GDP, well above Germany's 63%, meaning Saint Vincent and the Grenadines owes far more relative to the size of its own economy — even where the nominal, dollar-for-dollar comparison above suggests otherwise.

The IMF puts Germany at 47% of GDP net of financial assets, and publishes no net debt figure for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines spends about 11% of government revenue on net interest ($38 million in 2025), and Germany about 1.8% ($43.9 billion in 2025). See the full interest ranking.

The gap between them is widening: Germany's debt is growing faster in dollar terms ($10K/sec vs $4/sec for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), adding roughly $895,363,200 to the difference each day.

Scale is part of the story too: Germany's population (83M) is about 747.9× Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' (0M), 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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