Credit Ratings Around The World, According To S&P, Moody's And Fitch (INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS)

While the U.S. stock market appears to be rebounding a bit following one of the biggest single-day drops in the history of the Dow Jones, the long-term effect of credit rating agency Standard and Poor's U.S. downgrade remain to be seen.

Despite the downgrade, the nation's credit rating, even if it were downgraded by Moody's and Fitch as well, is still way better than the vast majority of the world. Many nations are so stricken that they don't even have credit ratings.

The charts below show the credit rating for each country in the world, according to the top three credit ratings agencies.They also give the relative outlook for each nation, showing who's stable, who's growing, and who's in danger of slipping.

S&P, via ChartsBin:

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Moody's, via ChartsBin:

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Fitch, via ChartsBin:

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Comments

[fmgbrandon]

04:18 PM on 08/10/2011

Great video (animation) on the US credit downgrade http://www.fmgsuite.com/market-in-motion/?p=319

[buddhalounge]

03:19 PM on 08/10/2011

Except for Germany, most of the other European countries do not deserve a AAA rating, but just as all these rating agencies only downgraded the companies once they crashed, these countries will only be downgraded once they see a meltdown.

[Benjamin Rosenfeld]

12:58 PM on 08/10/2011

Antarctica is such a freeloader. Look at them down there, all smug with no data. What are they hiding?

sarcasm

[Tyler Hansen]

12:00 PM on 08/10/2011

Rescind Bush Tax Cuts. Close corporate loopholes. Make major entitlement reform. Cut Military spending. Done and done.

[Ezio]

10:41 AM on 08/11/2011

I'm a conservative and I agree with most everything you wrote, but only rescind the tax cuts on those making a million plus. Also, there are some good loopholes, especially ones for small business and clean energy.

[xamfra]

11:52 AM on 08/10/2011

Well, it looks like investors are prepared to live in their fools paradise. S&P is right in concluding that the Bush tax cuts will not be rescinded by any presidency in the near future, insuring perpetual crippling debt on the part of the U.S.

[Fi]

11:36 AM on 08/10/2011

I don't know why China was so "snarky" with the US when S & P downgraded it, that in effect puts you on par with China, and on the other charts, a way above them.
Cheeky monkeys!

[editboy]

11:14 AM on 08/10/2011

Again moody's and S&P both gave AAA ratings to the toxic mortgage funds that cratered the US economy.

[1opinion]

10:18 AM on 08/10/2011

If under the US Constitution the debt of the United States is unquestionable. S&P states that it is queastionable. Who is right?

[mosttruthful]

11:18 AM on 08/10/2011

The framers of the Constitution probably never invisioned the U.S. borrowing 42 cents of every $1 it spends. This debt cannot be covered with additional revenues. The spending has to be put under control.

[Ezio]

10:41 AM on 08/11/2011

We were in debt the second we became a nation.

[den1953]

09:56 AM on 08/10/2011

I hope China soon catches up with the United States it is time for them to become the Super Power of the world. after all America has been helping them through business and those wars we have endured for ten years. Time for the United States to sit back and watch China take control for awhile, of course Americans have to rebuild Afghanistan prior to the Chinese take over of there mineral assets........

[Juan Pedro Corica]

09:30 AM on 08/10/2011

The most important thing is how they built the rating. Don't forget these are the same that didn't predicted the 2008 crash...

[schrodster]

09:22 AM on 08/10/2011

The change on the map of dark blue to light blue is refreshing. Kind of matches Michele Bachmann's eyes.

[Sean Myers]

09:12 AM on 08/10/2011

well heck if we were gonna get downgraded we might as well have borrowed more.

[Raider29]

09:03 AM on 08/10/2011

If you or I had a debt-to-income ratio of the our government, we wouldn't be able to get a loan to buy ANYTHING! Forget credit ratings and debt ceilings, closing loopholes and taxing the rich. You and I have to live within our means. We should expect our government to do the same. Period.

[cruz10illinois]

09:35 AM on 08/10/2011

First, comparing a government to a person is like comparing an apple to oranges
Second. if you make 50 000 $/year and buy house a 180 000 $ house with a down payment of 80 k then your debt-to-income ratio would be 200% twice the gov's. This is not "leaving outside your means", it is a sound financial transaction and a good investment.
All the bridges, port, airports, people with college degrees that got federal financial aid, etc.. those are all great financial investment on the future taken a bargain interest rates.

[robbyr2]

10:00 AM on 08/10/2011

The Raiders of the world don't understand investment in infrastructure and things like that. They don't understand that the federal budget isn't like a family budget- when we buy a car, the line item in our budget reflects our payments. When the federal budget buys a car, the entire cost is paid up front. Then we borrow money to pay for it. If state and local governments did things the same way, for example in balanced budget states, they would never build a road or a school.

[benshere8]

09:02 AM on 08/10/2011

GOP/TEA PARTY EXPLAIN HOW WE HAVE LOWER CREDIT RATING THAN COUNTRIES WITH SOCIALIZED MEDICINE?

[Milhouse901]

09:29 AM on 08/10/2011

all those with better credit than USA have "socialized medicine" and bigger safety net.

[robbyr2]

10:01 AM on 08/10/2011

Most of them are socialist like Germany, France, the Scandinavian countries, etc.

[joannevlavender]

08:45 AM on 08/10/2011

So...only S&P puts us behind Great Britain and the Nordic countries. The other two do not.

I'd say, given the ratings of the rest of the world, the USA is still pretty well off.

[Diablo Canyon]

08:54 AM on 08/10/2011

Yes S & P is Stimpy in my comment is from the Rhen and Stimpy cartoon, which is what these ratings agencies are like since their ignorant ratings in the mortgage securities crash.