Personal debts of British adults by gender

This statistic presents the extent and type of personal debts among British men and women (UK) as of June 2014. In that time, 20 percent of women and 19 percent of men had various loans, including student loans, loans from the bank, a friend or a payday lender.

Do you have any of the following kinds of personal debts?

Characteristic	Male	Female
None of the above	51%	53%
Other debts, e.g. from credit cards, parking fines etc	29%	27%
Any loan, for example from the bank, friend or a lender	19%	20%
A bank account that you are overdrawn on	14%	14%
Arrears on tax, bills or other payments*	6%	6%
Don't know	3%	3%

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Release date

June 2014

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Region

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Survey time period

11th to 13th of June 2014

Number of respondents

2,034 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The answer category read in full "Arrears on tax, bills or other payments (e.g. mortgage, child maintenance), by arrears, we mean owing money that should have been paid already."

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