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The World Map Of Debt
What if we were to redraw the world map based on the sustainability of national debt levels?
Original graphic by: HowMuch.net
Countries that are smaller in size, but that have big debt loads, would stand out more. If we used debt-to-GDP as scaling criteria, Japan would become the largest country on our new map. Japan holds 19.99% of all global debt despite only having about 6% of the world’s economic production. The country’s debt-to-GDP ratio is 230%.
Greece and Italy, two medium-sized European countries, would be bigger than North America as a whole. That said, the United States does hold an extreme amount of debt itself, equal to an astounding 29.05% of global debt. It is just masked more because of the country’s significant GDP. We have also looked at the United States another way in the past, and by the measure of debt-to-revenue, the US has the 2nd largest debt burden in the world.
On the opposite side of the question, there are large countries that have less debt – they disappear from the map almost completely. Australia, a giant land mass, is reduced to a tiny island with its load of 29% debt-to-GDP. Nigeria shrinks to a tiny speck on the map with an 11% ratio.
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Interesting map, kind of hard to see "actionable patterns" though.
Where's Peru?
What about sustainability of total debt (Fed, state/provincial, municipal, corporate, consumer, etc.) and not just the 'national' or federal gov debt.
The world average is ~ 310% of GDP.
US is ~320%
UK is the worst at 510% of GDP.
interesting map, thanks...
where is red, blue, and yellow? Guess no rainbow...
To anyone who thinks that China's government debt is 41%, I have a bridge to sell you
Yes, I saw that too.
China owes multipes of its GDP. Officially, its 2.6:1. Unofficially it might be 5-8:1 debt to GDP.
i don't think this was drawn correctly. italy has a higher debt than cyprus and looks relatively smaller.
Well sptted!
The map is drawn completey wrong.
If China has debt of 41% it should be scaled to 0.41, If Iceland has debt of 86% it should be scaled to 0.86.
This map suggests that in reality Iceland is half the size of China!
The more I look the more I see that the map is full of errors.
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Likewise Japan >500%
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Peru is right there beside Andorra.
Iceland is looking pretty big.
Must be sending those Banksters to the clink.
More like "some of their total debt to a bogus GDP ratio"
Russia 18%
Remember all the "Russia will soon go bankrupt" calls here in the comment forum, a few quarters ago?
statistics, a map and then
many questions. ah, life.
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama
If it wasn't for the double dutch sandwich, we'd been even more fucked here in Ireland.
So debt is a good thing then - you become bigger! Damn - better than a healthy diet.
Where is China? 41% for real???
this is nonsense.
everyone's debt and GDP data is bullshit.
If you look back through a few decades of the government controlled media
in all nations you will find one undeniable truth, they lie a great deal.
We may never know the real numbers because the system is corrupt top
to bottom, side to side, far and wide.
It is a Baskin and Robbins of Bullshit, 31 flavors of it.
Just one sign of the epic looting by the Kleptocrats...
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40250.html
Today's public service announcement from the IMF.
Resource Curse.
The Resource Curse
Know it's not funny, but I have a warped sense of humor. ^^^ see above.
from perspective, where i sit,
it is all politically colored
accent lighting.
Zero-sum game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game
In game theory and economic theory, a zero-sum game is a mathematical representation of a situation in which each participant's gain (or loss) of utility is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the utility of the other participant(s).
Yeah, Krugman says every liability is someone else's asset. So everyone sleep easy, there is no looming debt crisis. Don't get your knickers in a twist. Just relax, the world isn't totally fucked.
post 1971 political power has
made debt indistinguishable from
money; add that to the above
and you have either figured it out
or learned nothing, either way.
That's just goverment debt. Is that the only debt that counts?
Wow. Those numbers are seriously wrong. China has an offical debt to GDP of 2.62 to 1 but likely a 5-8:1 ratio.
But the map says Chinese debt to GDP is 41% (0.4:1)? Bullshit.
Keep making things up. If China has that amount of debt what is the reason to hold $4 trillion in asset. It is 30% of their GDP of asset. I know some one is disappointed.
The Chinese Communist Party maintains a joint 401k/ bust fund for the benefit of all its members. Clearly you have identified the money set aside for this purpose rather than those funds allocated for everything else.
Who cares about debt to GDP when the debt is held by all taxpayers but the bulk of GDP is going to the 1%? Take a look at debt to revenue and then get back to us.
Bring in the robots, you think ROI is bad now. Wait until you see the GDP books.
I think the robots will be skimming from you. It's your circus show, we'll just laugh for entertainment purposes.
looney tunes theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5XCX6Cgz8 (2:02)
Debt in a fiat currency you can print is air. Natural resources, productive capital and human capital is the wealth of a nation.
Indonesia looks in good health (if I'm reading this map correctly).
Where on the map does it show to whom the debt is owed?
China has printed an estimated $12 trillion or more since 2008... 41%? That's very clever.
US is really only about 50%, once you take out GAS debt, and Fed balance sheet assets. Japan's debt is lower as well, for similar reasons.
I don't see Israel on that map. How is it possible for a tiny country with such a large military to have no debt? Those Israelis must be some clever motherfuckers.
Hm... Australia is OK? Me thinks not.
Can't Phlippines get credit?
They should also make a map of private debt. Now that will be quite something. Planet Earth should be renamed to Planet Debt.
Maybe planet offshore Kleptocrat ?
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40250.html
You forgot Ukraine, which is getting the money from the IMF that Greece has to pay back, despite the fact that the Ukraine is much less likely than even Greece to ever pay anything back.
A more informative chart would scale to the ration of revenue to debt -- the USA would be one the of the biggest. After all, debt is sustained by revenues, not by turn-over.