Global debt (including borrowings of households, businesses and governments) has reached $315 trillion in 2024.
This is three times the global gross domestic product (GDP).
There are about 8.1 billion of us living in the world today.
If we were to divide that debt up by person, each of us would owe about $39,000.”
Of the total global debt, household debt stands at US$59.1 trillion; business debt at US$164.5 trillion; and public debt (governments’ borrowing) at US$91.4 trillion.
India’s public debt reached $2.9 trillion in 2023, amounting to 82.7% of its GDP.