How much credit card debt do Americans owe in total?

Money medium Data from 2024

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Answer in dollars. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

$1,170,000,000,000

Roughly $1.2T.

Americans carry about $1.17 trillion in credit card balances, an all-time high. That is still small next to the roughly $12.6 trillion in mortgage debt, but it is the most expensive kind: average card interest rates sit above 21%.

Where this number comes from

Source Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Household Debt and Credit Report
Figure refers to 2024
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Unit dollars

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