Household credit by country

Every economy Bullrun holds a reading for: 44 in all, ranked highest first. Switzerland is the highest at 127.0% and Argentina the lowest at 5.6%; the median is 49.7%. Each row carries its own period and source, because these providers publish on different calendars - two rows in this table can be more than a year apart.

• Economies covered44
• Highest127.0% Switzerland
• Lowest5.6% Argentina
• Median49.7%

Household credit by country, ranked

How the scale reads

These are the same bands that shade the map on the Global Markets dashboard, so a country's colour there and its band here always agree.

What this measures

Credit to households as a percentage of GDP, covering 44 economies. This is the STOCK of household borrowing - mortgages and consumer credit outstanding - not the private-sector credit gap, and not government debt. All three are on this site and they answer different questions. The bands describe the size of the ratio only; the Basel credit-gap thresholds do not apply here.

Source: BIS credit to the non-financial sector, quarterly. Coverage differs from metric to metric because these providers cover different sets of economies, and a gap is left as a gap rather than filled from a proxy - an absent economy is one we hold no reading for, never a zero. See the data license.

Other metrics by country

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