Striking numbers

Today in the UK

• 331 people every day of the year will be declared insolvent or bankrupt. This is equivalent to 1 person every 60 seconds during a working day

• 1,577 Consumer County Court Judgements (CCJs) were issued every day during Q1 2011 and the average judgement amount was £3,118

• Citizen Advice Bureaux dealt with 9,072 new debt problems every working day in England and Wales during the year ending March 2011

• The average cost of raising a child from birth to the age of 21 is £27.50 a day

• 100 properties were repossessed every day during Q1 2011

• 36 new people became unemployed for more than 12 months every day during the 12 months to end May 2011

• 1,578 people reported they had become redundant every day during 3 months to end May 2011

• £251,500,000 is the amount that the Government Public Sector Net Debt (PSDN), including financial interventions, will grow today (equivalent to £2,911 per second).

• £144,600,000 is the interest the Government has to pay each day on the UKs net debt of £2276.0bn (which includes financial interventions). This is estimated to rise to £182m a day in 2015-16

• 220 mortgage possession claims will be issued and 160 mortgage possession orders will be made today

• 382 landlord possession claims will be issued and 265 landlord possession orders will be made today

• The UK population is projected to grow by 1,205 people a day over the next decade

• 24.1m plastic card purchase transactions will be made today with a total value of £1.182bn

• 7.3m cash withdrawals will be made today with a total value of £478m

• The average car will cost £16.08 to run today

• It costs £67.80 on average to fill a car with a 50 litre tank with unleaded petrol.

Source: creditaction.org.uk