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Top 10 countries with the highest debt-to-GDP in 2025
May 5 , 2025
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- The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recent projections indicate that global public debt could surpass levels from the COVID-19 pandemic era, which reached 98.9% of GDP in 2020.
- Worldwide public debt might exceed 117% of GDP by 2027.
- The global public debt may reach nearly 100% (99.6%) of global GDP by the end of this decade (2030).
- Sudan surpassed Japan, having the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the world, at 252%.
- Among developed and advanced economies, Japan has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio at 234.9%.
- The United States, the world’s largest economy, ranks eighth globally with a high debt-to-GDP ratio of 123% in 2025.
- France follows closely at 9th with a public debt ratio of 116.3%, and Canada rounds up the top ten.
- China is ranked 21st and has a public debt ratio of 96%.
- India’s debt-to-GDP ratio of 80% places it 31st globally.
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