Debt Statistics today in the UK:

• The average household debt will increase by £0.52 today (a decrease from £11.11 a day in January 2008)
• 362 people today will be declared insolvent or bankrupt.

• KPMG estimate this will increase to 411 people a day throughout 2009 or 1 person becoming bankrupt or entering into an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) every 3.5 minutes.
• In the last 12 months consumers saved an average of £2.96 every day.
• 2,000 Consumer County Court Judgements (CCJs) were issued every day in the last three months of 2008.
• 125 properties were repossessed every day during the last 3 months to end March 2009. The Council of Mortgage lenders estimates this will increase to approximately 178 a day throughout 2009.
• Unemployment increased by 2,411 people every day during 3 months to end of June 2009.
• 3,036 people reported they had become redundant every day during 3 months to end of June 2009.
• £476m is the amount that the Government Public Sector net debt (PSDN) will grow today (equivalent to £5,505 per second).
• £80m is the interest the Government has to pay each day on the UKs net debt of £801bn. This is projected to rise to £118m a day (£43bn) in 2010 – 2011 financial year.
• 33,600 applications for credit have been turned down every day during the past six months.
• 287 mortgage possession claims will be issued and 209 mortgage possession orders will be made today.
• 377 landlord possession claims will be issued and 258 landlord possession orders will be made today.
• 20.8m plastic card purchase transactions will be made today with a total value of £1.03bn.
• Citizen Advice Bureaus dealt with 7,423 new debt problems every day.
• The average car will cost £16.80 to run today
• £578m will be withdrawn from cash machines today.

Source: creditaction.org.uk