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human
The US Gov. dept is 25 trillions. It seems incredibly high, but how does that compare to other countries? How high is the risk that one day the balloon will pop and the US economy will crash? Is the USA at risk of losing its status as a superpower in relation to that debt?
gpt
It's more of a how much of the fiscal govt budget is going towards servicing the debt and the debt/GDP ratio. 

The bigger the portion of the fiscal budget goes towards servicing debt, the less money there is to spend on other programs. 

In global context, Japan nearly spends half its receipts on servicing the debt and their debt to GDP is around 250%. However, their debt is mostly owned by domestic institutions and the government debt "bubble" hasn't popped for decades now. Even though it has its own problems, there's really no tell-tale sign of disastrous collapse for Japan.

The United States last paid roughly 17% of its tax receipts towards debt servicing, with a debt to GDP ratio of 103-105%. The debt servicing is growing(and it shouldn't continue), but the economy won't crash from those numbers. The balloon won't pop since there's still plenty of room to service the debt, the balloon will only pop if the government defaults on a interest payment.