UK Debt Statistics debt-simple

UK Debt Statistics*

Today in the UK:

£1m every 8 min - growth in UK debt in 2008
Average household debt in the UK is £22,190 (excluding mortgages)
Average household debt in the UK is £59,175 (including mortgages)
Average owed by every UK adult is £30,440 (including mortgages)
Consumers will borrow an additional £207m today
Consumers will pay £263m in interest today
The average household debt will increase by over £8.50 today
Unemployment increased by 1,802 people every day during the last 3 months.
121 properties will be repossessed today.
275 people today will be declared insolvent or bankrupt. (KPMG estimate this will increase to 301 people a day by the end of 2008 which is equivalent to 1 person being declared insolvent or bankrupt every 4.8 mins.)
2,370 Consumer County Court Judgements (CCJs) issued
27.4m plastic card transactions will be made today with a total value of £1.56bn.
Approximately 18,000 credit card applications are being rejected every day.
4,000 fixed rate mortgages will come to an end today.
The average car will cost £15.42 to run today