Indebted U.S. households in debt hardship 1989-2007, by age
The statistic shows the percentage of indebted households in debt hardship in the United States from 1989 to 2007, by age. Debt hardship is defined as spending more than 40 percent of household income on debt payments. In 2007, 14.6 percent of all indebted households in the U.S. suffered from debt hardship.