Interactive: Climbing the global debt mountain

Expectations that the financial turmoil of the past eight years would trigger widespread “deleveraging” to safer levels of indebtedness were misplaced, a comprehensive debt survey by McKinsey & Co, the consultancy, shows.

Instead, the world is awash with even more debt than before the financial crisis. Use the FT interactive tool, based on McKinsey’s data to compare countries’ levels of debt.