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Government debt per capita

Name: Government debt per capita and as a % of GDP by country
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Government debt worldwide in 2025 amounted to 94% of world GDP according to the IMF, or about $13,900 for every person on Earth. In dollars per person, the governments of Singapore ($164.6 thousand), the US ($112.3 thousand) and Japan ($74.0 thousand) owe the most. Relative to GDP the ranking changes: Japan (204.8% of GDP), Sudan (204.4%) and Singapore (165.7%). Debt per person shows the scale; the debt-to-GDP ratio shows the burden on the economy. Switch between layers above the globe.

World, % of GDP94.0%IMF, 2025

World, per person$13,864calculated from IMF data

Highest per person$164,648Singapore

Highest relative to GDP204.8%Japan

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					Source
1	Singapore	$164,648	165.7%	8	IMF
2	United States	$112,292	124.4%	8	IMF
3	Japan	$73,972	204.8%	8	IMF
4	Belgium	$65,834	107.9%	8	IMF
5	Canada	$63,384	113.6%	8	IMF
6	Italy	$59,323	137.1%	8	IMF
7	United Kingdom	$58,954	102.1%	8	IMF
8	France	$56,744	115.5%	8	IMF
9	Iceland	$56,010	56.7%	8	IMF
10	Austria	$51,429	81.4%	8	IMF
11	Norway	$50,954	54.0%	8	IMF
12	Finland	$50,170	88.4%	8	IMF
13	Switzerland	$46,994	40.1%	7	IMF
14	Bahrain	$44,071	144.3%	7	IMF
15	Ireland	$43,079	34.8%	7	IMF
16	Israel	$41,350	67.9%	7	IMF
17	Greece	$39,642	146.6%	7	IMF
18	Luxembourg	$39,285	26.5%	7	IMF
19	San Marino	$39,241	59.8%	7	IMF
20	Spain	$38,788	100.5%	7	IMF
21	Germany	$38,407	62.7%	7	IMF
22	Australia	$34,451	51.9%	7	IMF
23	Netherlands	$32,749	44.7%	7	IMF
24	Bahamas	$29,919	71.7%	7	IMF
25	Qatar	$28,855	42.5%	7	IMF
26	Portugal	$28,761	89.7%	7	IMF
27	New Zealand	$26,666	54.7%	7	IMF
28	Aruba	$26,266	64.8%	7	IMF
29	Barbados	$26,211	96.2%	7	IMF
30	Slovenia	$24,556	65.1%	6	IMF
31	Maldives	$24,438	129.4%	6	IMF
32	Cyprus	$23,054	55.0%	6	IMF
33	Malta	$22,409	46.2%	6	IMF
34	Sweden	$21,862	34.5%	6	IMF
35	Denmark	$21,533	27.4%	6	IMF
36	Hungary	$19,284	74.6%	6	IMF
37	South Korea	$19,078	52.4%	6	IMF
38	UAE	$18,357	33.9%	6	IMF
39	Slovakia	$17,498	61.4%	6	IMF
40	Poland	$17,020	59.7%	6	IMF
41	Uruguay	$16,104	65.6%	6	IMF
42	Czechia	$16,039	44.2%	6	IMF
43	Andorra	$15,279	30.3%	6	IMF
44	Croatia	$15,261	56.3%	6	IMF
45	Antigua & Barbuda	$15,217	70.2%	6	IMF
46	Trinidad & Tobago	$15,177	84.0%	6	IMF
47	China	$13,774	98.6%	6	IMF
48	Romania	$13,616	60.4%	6	IMF
49	Lithuania	$13,002	39.5%	6	IMF
50	St. Kitts & Nevis	$12,267	58.7%	6	IMF
51	Latvia	$12,248	46.9%	6	IMF
52	St. Vincent & Grenadines	$11,703	107.7%	6	IMF
53	Costa Rica	$11,574	60.4%	6	IMF
54	Argentina	$11,534	80.1%	6	IMF
55	Saudi Arabia	$11,248	31.8%	6	IMF
56	St. Lucia	$11,237	76.8%	6	IMF
57	Mauritius	$11,228	86.8%	6	IMF
58	Panama	$11,215	56.6%	6	IMF
59	Palau	$10,582	52.8%	6	IMF
60	Brazil	$9,967	93.3%	5	IMF
61	Dominica	$9,885	99.9%	5	IMF
62	Malaysia	$9,845	70.5%	5	IMF
63	Seychelles	$9,732	51.2%	5	IMF
64	Montenegro	$9,388	63.5%	5	IMF
65	Taiwan	$9,325	23.6%	5	IMF
66	Libya	$9,225	153.8%	5	IMF
67	Grenada	$8,778	69.4%	5	IMF
68	Mexico	$8,489	61.7%	5	IMF
69	Estonia	$8,313	24.0%	5	IMF
70	Lebanon	$8,220	139.4%	5	IMF
71	Gabon	$7,991	84.2%	5	IMF
72	Guyana	$7,544	28.9%	5	IMF
73	Chile	$7,402	41.5%	5	IMF
74	Oman	$7,155	34.7%	5	IMF
75	Puerto Rico	$7,149	17.6%	5	IMF
76	Suriname	$6,988	96.9%	5	IMF
77	Ukraine	$6,982	107.1%	5	IMF
78	Dominican Republic	$6,932	59.0%	5	IMF
79	Albania	$6,894	53.8%	5	IMF
80	Hong Kong	$6,882	12.1%	5	IMF
81	Cape Verde	$6,879	115.4%	5	IMF
82	Serbia	$6,450	42.2%	5	IMF
83	Bulgaria	$6,099	29.9%	5	IMF
84	North Macedonia	$5,547	52.6%	5	IMF
85	Jamaica	$5,416	66.0%	5	IMF
86	Belize	$5,321	66.9%	5	IMF
87	South Africa	$5,307	78.4%	5	IMF
88	Thailand	$5,213	64.7%	5	IMF
89	Fiji	$5,172	77.1%	5	IMF
90	Colombia	$5,162	59.9%	5	IMF
91	El Salvador	$5,038	87.6%	5	IMF
92	Sri Lanka	$4,844	96.8%	4	IMF
93	Kuwait	$4,610	14.6%	4	IMF
94	Bhutan	$4,554	102.6%	4	IMF
95	Armenia	$4,454	46.9%	4	IMF
96	Turkey	$4,426	23.7%	4	IMF
97	Jordan	$4,321	83.6%	4	IMF
98	Bolivia	$4,319	83.3%	4	IMF
99	Ecuador	$3,923	54.5%	4	IMF
100	Tunisia	$3,788	81.7%	4	IMF
101	Kazakhstan	$3,646	24.3%	4	IMF
102	Moldova	$3,348	39.2%	4	IMF
103	Georgia	$3,329	34.3%	4	IMF
104	Namibia	$3,324	67.5%	4	IMF
105	Belarus	$3,310	31.3%	4	IMF
106	Morocco	$3,249	66.6%	4	IMF
107	Mongolia	$3,177	45.0%	4	IMF
108	Algeria	$3,124	52.1%	4	IMF
109	Iraq	$3,064	52.8%	4	IMF
110	Peru	$2,991	30.1%	4	IMF
111	Russian Federation	$2,965	16.6%	4	IMF
112	Egypt	$2,933	86.8%	4	IMF
113	Paraguay	$2,933	38.2%	4	IMF
114	Bosnia & Herzegovina	$2,808	28.8%	4	IMF
115	Equatorial Guinea	$2,779	35.4%	4	IMF
116	Botswana	$2,653	34.0%	4	IMF
117	Philippines	$2,528	59.1%	4	IMF
118	Senegal	$2,470	127.7%	3	IMF
119	São Tomé & Príncipe	$2,414	59.1%	3	IMF
120	Republic of the Congo	$2,388	100.4%	3	IMF
121	India	$2,251	84.3%	3	IMF
122	Indonesia	$2,077	40.9%	3	IMF
123	Laos	$1,928	88.8%	3	IMF
124	Angola	$1,898	52.9%	3	IMF
125	Tonga	$1,875	26.9%	3	IMF
126	Eswatini	$1,858	44.8%	3	IMF
127	Kenya	$1,817	71.3%	3	IMF
128	Nauru	$1,779	12.2%	3	IMF
129	Guatemala	$1,762	26.7%	3	IMF
130	Côte d’Ivoire	$1,734	57.1%	3	IMF
131	Palestine	$1,673	55.9%	3	IMF
132	Papua New Guinea	$1,642	51.6%	3	IMF
133	Ghana	$1,596	48.8%	3	IMF
134	Iran	$1,518	35.6%	3	IMF
135	Sudan	$1,480	204.4%	3	IMF
136	Vietnam	$1,473	30.5%	3	IMF
137	Azerbaijan	$1,472	20.1%	3	IMF
138	Honduras	$1,450	40.3%	3	IMF
139	Vanuatu	$1,414	36.2%	3	IMF
140	Kosovo	$1,364	17.5%	3	IMF
141	Djibouti	$1,331	31.3%	3	IMF
142	Zambia	$1,318	100.6%	3	IMF
143	Samoa	$1,285	21.2%	3	IMF
144	Zimbabwe	$1,276	38.0%	3	IMF
145	Pakistan	$1,235	72.8%	3	IMF
146	Kyrgyzstan	$1,234	39.4%	3	IMF
147	Nicaragua	$1,155	34.6%	3	IMF
148	Bangladesh	$1,107	42.0%	3	IMF
149	Mauritania	$1,100	40.4%	3	IMF
150	Uzbekistan	$1,100	28.6%	3	IMF
151	Liechtenstein	$1,095	0.5%	3	IMF
152	Guinea-Bissau	$988	75.1%	2	IMF
153	Benin	$985	59.3%	2	IMF
154	Guinea	$971	36.3%	2	IMF
155	Togo	$890	64.9%	2	IMF
156	Cameroon	$802	40.5%	2	IMF
157	Myanmar	$779	51.9%	2	IMF
158	Rwanda	$748	64.7%	2	IMF
159	Uganda	$736	53.2%	2	IMF
160	Nepal	$728	47.4%	2	IMF
161	Cambodia	$724	25.5%	2	IMF
162	Gambia	$718	73.7%	2	IMF
163	Marshall Islands	$695	8.8%	2	IMF
164	Solomon Islands	$641	29.6%	2	IMF
165	Tanzania	$632	49.8%	2	IMF
166	Burkina Faso	$612	53.2%	2	IMF
167	Malawi	$606	96.6%	2	IMF
168	Mozambique	$595	90.3%	2	IMF
169	Micronesia	$590	8.8%	2	IMF
170	Lesotho	$578	49.4%	2	IMF
171	Comoros	$539	30.5%	2	IMF
172	Brunei	$522	1.6%	2	IMF
173	Liberia	$501	55.1%	2	IMF
174	Mali	$499	40.3%	1	IMF
175	Ethiopia	$494	43.3%	1	IMF
176	Sierra Leone	$449	51.4%	1	IMF
177	Nigeria	$442	36.1%	1	IMF
178	Chad	$386	33.3%	1	IMF
179	Turkmenistan	$359	3.1%	1	IMF
180	Central African Republic	$358	42.6%	1	IMF
181	Niger	$332	45.5%	1	IMF
182	Haiti	$315	12.3%	1	IMF
183	Tajikistan	$315	18.6%	1	IMF
184	Madagascar	$295	47.7%	1	IMF
185	South Sudan	$291	64.2%	1	IMF
186	Kiribati	$216	8.0%	1	IMF
187	Burundi	$197	42.0%	1	IMF
188	Timor-Leste	$195	13.3%	1	IMF
189	DR Congo	$178	20.4%	1	IMF
190	Afghanistan	$34	7.6%	1	IMF
191	Macao	$0	0.0%	1	IMF

About the data

Indicator. General government gross debt: all debt liabilities of central government, regional and local authorities and social security funds, including bonds, loans and other borrowing. The page has two layers: debt as a % of GDP and debt in US dollars per person.

Period and source. IMF, World Economic Outlook, October 2026, values for 2025. Some of them are preliminary IMF estimates and may be revised.

Per-person calculation. Debt as a % of GDP multiplied by GDP per capita in current US dollars (both IMF figures for 2025). The conversion uses the market exchange rate, so the value also depends on the national currency's exchange rate.

Scale. Eight classes for each layer. Per person: under $500, $500–1,000, $1,000–2,500, $2,500–5,000, $5,000–10,000, $10,000–25,000, $25,000–50,000, and $50,000 and above; the steps are uneven because values differ by a factor of several hundred. As a % of GDP: under 20%, 20–30%, 30–45%, 45–60%, 60–90%, 90–120%, 120–150%, and 150% and above; 60% is the EU's Maastricht benchmark. The darker the color, the larger the debt.

Gaps. Countries and territories for which the IMF publishes no data for 2025 are shown in gray: Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea, Monaco, Vatican City, Northern Cyprus, Somaliland and a number of dependent territories.

Caveats. Gross debt does not take government assets into account. Singapore borrows not to cover spending but to invest in reserves, so high debt does not signal risk there. Norway and the Gulf states have large sovereign wealth funds. Much of Japan's debt is held by the Bank of Japan and domestic investors. Sudan's value is inflated by the collapse of GDP during the war. Debt per person is almost always higher in rich countries; to assess the debt burden, use the “% of GDP” layer.

Sources and data dates

IMF, World Economic Outlook (October 2026): General government gross debt (GGXWDG_NGDP) and GDP per capita, current prices (NGDPDPC). Data retrieved on 19 October 2026.

How to cite

WhiteIndex. Government debt per capita and as a % of GDP: map and data by country. Data: IMF, World Economic Outlook (October 2026), 2025.

WhiteIndex reference page. Data are updated with each new edition of the World Economic Outlook (April and October).

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