1
🇻🇪Venezuela
308.7%
2
🇯🇵Japan
206.5%
3
🇸🇩Sudan
187.6%
4
🇸🇬Singapore
171.3%
5
🇧🇭Bahrain
147.6%
6
🇬🇷Greece
145.7%
7
🇱🇧Lebanon
139.4%
8
🇮🇹Italy
137.1%
9
🇸🇳Senegal
130.2%
10
🇲🇻Maldives
125.4%
11
🇺🇸United States
123.9%
12
🇫🇷France
116.0%
13
🇨🇦Canada
113.5%
14
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
113.4%
15
🇺🇦Ukraine
108.7%
16
🇧🇪Belgium
106.3%
17
🇸🇷Suriname
105.8%
18
🇧🇹Bhutan
103.6%
19
🇩🇲Dominica
102.6%
20
🇲🇿Mozambique
102.5%
21
🇬🇧United Kingdom
102.3%
22
🇨🇻Cape Verde
101.0%
23
🇪🇸Spain
100.4%
24
🇨🇳China
99.2%
25
🇨🇬Congo
96.8%
26
🇧🇧Barbados
94.2%
27
🇧🇷Brazil
93.3%
28
🇵🇹Portugal
89.9%
29
🇫🇮Finland
89.3%
30
🇸🇻El Salvador
87.2%
31
🇪🇬Egypt
86.8%
32
🇲🇺Mauritius
86.5%
33
🇿🇲Zambia
86.0%
34
🇧🇴Bolivia
84.8%
35
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
84.2%
36
🇮🇳India
84.1%
37
🇯🇴Jordan
82.8%
38
🇹🇳Tunisia
81.3%
39
🇱🇦Laos
80.6%
40
🇦🇹Austria
80.5%
41
🇦🇷Argentina
80.3%
42
🇬🇦Gabon
78.9%
43
🇫🇯Fiji
78.7%
44
🇿🇦South Africa
78.6%
45
🇲🇼Malawi
78.4%
46
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
77.1%
47
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
75.3%
48
🇭🇺Hungary
75.2%
49
🇬🇲Gambia
73.9%
50
🇧🇸Bahamas
73.8%
Highlights
As of 2025, Venezuela ranks first with 308.7%, followed by Japan (206.5%) and Sudan (187.6%).
Across 189 countries and territories, values run from 308.7% (Venezuela) to 0.5% (Liechtenstein), with a median of 52.6%.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Asia, 2 from Africa, 2 from Europe and 1 from the Americas.
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook, general government gross debt (via Wikipedia), 2025. Unit: % of GDP.
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook, general government gross debt (via Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia); underlying data © the cited publisher · fetched Oct 13, 2026