Unsustainable Debt: Countries With The Highest National Debt Per Person In 2020

With a population of 126.85 million, Japan now has the highest national debt per person. Data gathered and calculated by the CEOWORLD magazine shows that each Japanese national owes $89,525 of the $11.35 trillion national debt.

Other countries with high national debt per citizen include the US ($70180), Belgium ($50462), the United Kingdom ($49,211) and Italy ($47,147) closes the top five category. Canada ($46,035) occupies the sixth position.

The United States with the highest global national debt of $23.2 trillion has a $70,180 debt per person. On the other hand, China with a population of about 1.4 billion debt per citizen is over 15 times lower than Japan’s, and over 11 times lower than the United States. Each Chinese national owes $5,866.

Top 30 countries with the highest national debt per person

China had a public debt of about $8.4 trillion which is three times lower than the United States $23.2 trillion. Elsewhere, each of 1.3 billion Indian citizens owes a debt of $1823 to make it the 28th most country with a high public debt person against the $2.5 trillion national debt.

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