WORLD'S REAL RICH: Debtors & Savers

LIST OF MOST INDEBTED NATIONS (Source: IMF)

Only Japan among Asian countries figures in the list of the most indebted nations but it has the second biggest foreign-exchange reserves as can be seen in the next table. Most of the Asian Tigers have big savings.
* European Union is a group of countries, with a big debt but still, it has big reserves as can be seen in the next table

Rank	Country	External debt US dollars	Date
—	European Union	16,080,000,000,000	30 June 2011
1	United States	16,737,246,099,998	1 July 2013
2	United Kingdom	9,836,000,000,000	30 June 2011
3	France	5,633,000,000,000	30 June 2011
4	Germany	5,624,000,000,000	30 June 2011
5	Japan	2,719,000,000,000	30 June 2011
8	Italy	2,460,000,000,000	30 June 2012 est.
6	Netherlands	2,655,489,600,000	30 June 2011
7	Spain	2,290,000,000,000	11 April 2013
9	Ireland	2,352,000,000,000	30 September 2011
10	Luxembourg	2,146,000,000,000	30 June 2011

LIST OF COUNTRIES WITH BIGGEST FOREIGN-EXCHANGE RESERVES (Source: IMF)

Rank Country/monetary authority Foreign exchange reserves (Millions of US$) Figures as of 1 People's Republic of China 3,312,000 Dec 2012 2  Japan 1,238,713 Jun 2013 (Eurozone 808,192 May 2013) 3 Saudi Arabia 626,800 Dec 2012 4 Switzerland 524,800 Apr 2013 5 Russia 518,431 May 2013 6 Republic of China (Taiwan) 406,062 May 2013 7  Brazil 374,417 May 2013 8 Republic of Korea 328,095 May 2013 9 Hong Kong 306,504 Apr 2013 10  India 293,892 Apr 2013