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Household Debt and Credit Cards in the U.S. — 2019

Credit card debt of $1.169 trillion at year-end 2019 was the total of outstanding receivables tied to Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover commercial and consumer card products combined with all private label (store, gasoline, medical, etc.) card products. Credit card debt shown in this article was compiled by the Nilson Report from its surveys of financial institutions and private label lenders. The number of U.S. households, a statistic provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, was 128.6 million for 2019. Credit card debt per U.S. household was $9,095 at the end of 2019, an increase...

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