Do Europeen (and hell other 1st world nations) countries have national debts comparable to the United States' (per capita debt?)?

Also the French helped us win the American Revolution. So thank a Frenchman, because if it weren't for them we'd all be speaking English today.

Are there even universally agreed-upon definitions for First World, Second World and Third World?

No.

I didn't think so.

1. United States $10.45 trillion (2002 est.)
2. Germany $2.16 trillion (2002 est.)
3. France $1.558 trillion (2002 est.)
4. United Kingdom $1.528 trillion (2002 est.)
5. Italy $1.455 trillion (2002 est.)
6. Canada $934.1 billion (2002 est.)
7. Mexico $924.4 billion (2002 est.)
8. Spain $850.7 billion (2002 est.)
9. Netherlands $437.8 billion (2002 est.)
10. Poland $373.2 billion (2002 est.)
11. Belgium $299.7 billion (2002 est.)
12. Switzerland $233.4 billion (2002 est.)
13. Sweden $230.7 billion (2002 est.)
14. Austria $227.7 billion (2002 est.)
15. Greece $203.3 billion (2002 est.)
16. Portugal $195.2 billion (2002 est.)
17. Romania $169.3 billion (2002 est.)
18. Czech Republic $157.1 billion (2002 est.)
19. Denmark $155.3 billion (2002 est.)
20. Norway $149.1 billion (2002 est.)
21. Hungary $134 billion (2002 est.)
22. Finland $133.8 billion (2002 est.)
23. Ireland $113.7 billion (2002 est.)
24. Belarus $90.19 billion (2002 est.)
25. Slovakia $67.34 billion (2002 est.)
26. Bulgaria $49.23 billion (2002 est.)
27. Croatia $43.12 billion (2002 est.)
28. Slovenia $37.06 billion (2002 est.)
29. Lithuania $30.08 billion (2002 est.)
30. Serbia and Montenegro $23.15 billion (2002 est.)
31. Luxembourg $21.94 billion (2002 est.)
32. Latvia $20.99 billion (2002 est.)
33. Albania $15.69 billion (2002 est.)
34. Estonia $15.52 billion (2002 est.)
35. Moldova $11.51 billion (2002 est.)
36. Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of $10.57 billion (2002 est.)
37. Bosnia and Herzegovina $7.3 billion (2002 est.)
38. Malta $6.818 billion (2002 est.)
39. Bermuda $2.25 billion (2002 est.)
40. Jersey $2.2 billion (1999 est.)
41. Man, Isle of $1.6 billion (2001 est.)
42. Andorra $1.3 billion (2000 est.)
43. Guernsey $1.3 billion (1999 est.)
44. Faroe Islands $1 billion (2001 est.)
45. San Marino $940 million (2001 est.)
46. Monaco $870 million (1999 est.)
47. Liechtenstein $825 million (1999 est.)
48. Gibraltar $500 million (1997 est.)
49. Saint Pierre and Miquelon $74 million - supplemented by annual payments from France of about $60 million (1996 est.)
50. Holy See (Vatican City)
Total $23.54 trillion
Weighted Average $3.83 trillion

sorry that's not per capita, so maybe not that helpful

oh goddammit that's GDP too. ignore me.

Anyone got stats on Allied repayments to the US over the last 50 years? Didnt the US take ownership of some UK assets in America as upfront payment towards arms?

Woah, Romania be rackin' in ducats!

Don't have that to hand, but the remaining UK WW2 debt repayments are:
December 2004 - USD145 Million
December 2005 - USD142 Million
December 2006 - USD83 Million
USD4.336 Trillion was borrowed comprising USD3.75 Trillion Line of Credit and a Lend-Lease loan of 586 Million USD.

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threads like this only make me more like Mark C - is that really what people want?

WE ARE ALL MADE OF BARRY

:(

has TS: JW vs CRW been done already?

Yes, actually. It ended in GIFs.

oh good

yay italy!

Grazie.

Public debt. This entry records the cumulative total of all government borrowings less repayments that are denominated in a country's home currency. Public debt should not be confused with external debt, which reflects the foreign currency liablities of both the private and public sector and must be financed out of foreign exchange earnings.

Jsut curious: does anyone know how the pre-Great War population of Russia (meaning all former USSR countries) compares to the population today? I was thinking after WWI, the Revolution, WWII and Stalin how anyone could be left.