The data displays the twenty countries with the highest public debt in relation to GDP in 2017. In 2016, Japan ranked first among the countries with the highest public debt levels; it had an estimated debt of around 240% of GDP.
Japanese public debt
Public debt, also known as national and government debt, is the debt owed by a nation’s central government. However, as a government draws in much of its income from its population, government debt is an indirect debt on taxpayers. The countries with the highest public debt are unsurprising, and although the U.
