Turkey vs Saudi Arabia vs Iran: Who Now Owes More? 🇹🇷🇸🇦🇮🇷
Turkey, Saudi Arabia or Iran: who owes more? Government debt as % of GDP, year by year to 2026.
Turkey: 51% (2000) → 24% (2025) → 22% (2026, estimate)
Saudi Arabia: 39% (1991) → 32% (2025) → 35% (2026, estimate)
Iran: 29% (1996) → 36% (2025) → 39% (2026, estimate)
What the number means: 120% = the government owes 1.2 years of everything the country produces.
High debt is not always a crisis (Japan), but it costs interest and leaves less money for schools, roads and health.
Government debt = everything the government owes (gross debt), as a share of the country's yearly economic output (GDP). 100% = the debt equals one full year of the economy.
Terms used:
- GDP: the value of everything a country produces in a year
- IMF forecast: the International Monetary Fund's own forecast for 2026
Data: IMF World Economic Outlook - general government gross debt (% of GDP), 1980-2025; 2026: IMF estimate.
🎵 Music: Empire_s_Weight
Follow for more data videos!
#turkey #saudiarabia #iran #governmentdebt #nationaldebt #economy #economics #datavisualization #dataviz #statistics
