🇳🇷 Nauru National Debt Clock

Nauru's Debt Trajectory (2015–2025)

Nauru's ratio has declined from its high for the period of 113% (2015) to roughly 12% at end-2025. A sharp one-year swing in this ratio can reflect a collapse in GDP or the currency as much as new borrowing. Source: IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2026, general government gross debt.

Nauru Net Debt and Interest

The IMF publishes no net debt figure for Nauru, so only the gross figure can be shown. The IMF publishes no primary balance for Nauru, so net interest cannot be derived.

Source: IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2026, general government, 2025, mostly IMF estimates. Net debt leaves out equity holdings, and what counts as an asset varies by country. Net interest is the primary balance minus the overall balance. A government in default or arrears can show a low figure that understates what it owes. Data · method.

About Nauru's National Debt

Nauru's debt-to-GDP ratio of 12% is low by international standards: higher than 5% of the 194 governments tracked here. No ratio is safe or dangerous on its own — whether a debt is sustainable depends on the interest rate on it, how fast the economy grows, the currency it is owed in and who holds it. By total government debt, Nauru ranks 193rd of the 194 governments tracked here.

Nauru's government debt is currently falling, by roughly $0.52 per second — about $45 thousand per day — in US-dollar terms. That can reflect repayment or a weakening currency; the projection behind it does not say which. Each of Nauru's 0 million residents carries an individual share of approximately $607. That is below the world average of roughly $14,700 in government debt per person.

Figures are computed by Global Debt Clock by linear extrapolation from each country's baseline figure, named in the source line on this page (for most countries, the IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2026). Actual debt changes through discrete bond issuances — these counters illustrate the approximate scale and pace of sovereign borrowing.

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Data & Citation

Source: IMF WEO October 2026 (GGXWDG, end-2025 stock) · baseline anchored 2026-01-01. Methodology: debt = 21,407,852 + -0.52 × seconds_since(2026-01-01)

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