<h1>■Here's who holds the world's $59.7 trillion in sovereign debt</h1><div class="content" id="content"><div class="post-top"><!-- Byline --> <div class="flex byline"><div class="flex-item"><div class="list-pipes"><ul><li class="author-byline ks-author-byline"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/author/bob-bryan"><u><font color="#0066cc">Bob Bryan</font></u></a></li> <li><div class="contact">Aug. 14, 2015, 3:56 PM</div></li></ul></div><div class="list-pipes"><ul> </ul></div><p class="pageviews"><span class="svg sprites very-hot views"><br></span></p></div></div><div class="rrssb-baseline share-container ks-share-top clearfix" style="display: block;"><!-- buttons end here --> </div><!-- RRSSB end --> </div><!-- Perfect Market content ad--> <!-- END Perfect Market content ad--> <div class="clear-both"><div class="KonaBody post-content"><p><span>Jeff Desjardins at <a href="http://www.visualcapitalist.com/60-trillion-of-world-debt-in-one-visualization/"><u><font color="#0066cc">Visual Capitalist</font></u></a> broke down how much of the world's sovereign debt each country holds.</span></p><p>The biggest chunk of the $59.7 trillion in debt belongs to the US, which holds 29.05% of all of it. Europe has a high frequency of large debts, with 7 of the top 15 countries coming from the continent, <span>Desjardins noted.</span></p><p>Desjardins also notes an interesting, and possibly troubling, fact about the second-largest debt holder Japan.</p><p>"Japan makes up only 6.18% of total economic production, but has amounted 19.99% of global debt," he wrote.</p><p>The data comes from the IMF and does not include household or corporate debt. Additionally, the graph shows the debt to GDP ratio for each country based on the shade of the piece. All debt was converted to USD for the graph.</p><p><span class="KonaFilter image-container display-table no-rightrail"><span><span class="image" data-post-image=""><img alt="world debt 60 trillion infographic" src="https://img1.daumcdn.net/relay/cafe/original/?fname=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic4.businessinsider.com%2Fimage%2F55ce3a87371d22723a8bdcb8-1070-1466%2Fworld-debt-60-trillion-infographic.jpg" data-mce-source="The Visual Capitalist"><span class="source"><span>The Visual Capitalist</span></span></span></span></span></p></div></div></div><p><span><br><br>/ from <a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/graph-worlds-debt-share-by-country-2015-8#ixzz3itI4jOPT">http://www.businessinsider.com</a></span><br></p>
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