World Debt by Country

individual countries, according to data released by the IMF in October 2019. It’s worth mentioning that the following numbers are representative of 2018 data, and that for a tiny subset of countries (i.e. Syria) we used the latest available numbers as an estimate.

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	<td class="column-1">#1</td><td class="column-2">🇺🇸 United States</td><td class="column-3">104.3%</td><td class="column-4">$21,465</td><td class="column-5">31.0%</td>
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	<td class="column-1">#2</td><td class="column-2">🇯🇵 Japan</td><td class="column-3">237.1%</td><td class="column-4">$11,788</td><td class="column-5">17.0%</td>
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	<td class="column-1">#3</td><td class="column-2">🇨🇳 China, People's Republic of</td><td class="column-3">50.6%</td><td class="column-4">$6,764</td><td class="column-5">9.8%</td>
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	<td class="column-1">#4</td><td class="column-2">🇮🇹 Italy</td><td class="column-3">132.2%</td><td class="column-4">$2,744</td><td class="column-5">4.0%</td>
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	<td class="column-1">#5</td><td class="column-2">🇫🇷 France</td><td class="column-3">98.4%</td><td class="column-4">$2,736</td><td class="column-5">3.9%</td>
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	<td class="column-1">#6</td><td class="column-2">🇬🇧 United Kingdom</td><td class="column-3">86.8%</td><td class="column-4">$2,455</td><td class="column-5">3.5%</td>
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	<td class="column-1">#7</td><td class="column-2">🇩🇪 Germany</td><td class="column-3">61.7%</td><td class="column-4">$2,438</td><td class="column-5">3.5%</td>
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	<td class="column-1">#8</td><td class="column-2">🇮🇳 India</td><td class="column-3">68.1%</td><td class="column-4">$1,851</td><td class="column-5">2.7%</td>
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