GLOBAL GOVERNMENT DEBTApril 2026 snapshot

The world owes more every second.

A transparent, live estimate of government debt across the world — built from IMF data and updated automatically.

WORLD DEBT ESTIMATELive estimate

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Global debt signals

Median debt / GDP—

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Countries tracked—IMF WEO coverage

Population covered—people represented

Fastest debt growth——

DEBT PRESSURE

Where debt weighs the most

Countries ranked by government debt as a share of GDP.

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—Estimated values · USD · IMF WEO

Country	Debt estimate	Debt / GDP	Per person	Per second
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TRANSPARENT BY DESIGN

The clock separates official inputs from the animated estimate, so a moving number is never presented as a real-time government ledger.

01 / SOURCE

Government gross debt, nominal GDP and population come from the IMF World Economic Outlook.

02 / CALCULATE

Debt in USD is derived from debt-to-GDP multiplied by nominal GDP. Per-person debt divides that estimate by population.

03 / ANIMATE

The counter interpolates between adjacent annual IMF estimates to show a smooth illustrative rate.