Financial Strength Housing, wealth & cost of living

Household debt

Mortgage, consumer and buy-now-pay-later borrowing has risen with housing costs and stagnant wages, increasing household sensitivity to interest rates and employment and the fragility of consumption under stress.

Rank: 233; of 250 trends
Attention intensity: 0.19×; 1× is the typical trend
Attention index: 19; 100 is the typical trend
Change: −1%; WoW
Volatility: ±4%; Shifting

The week ending 7 Nov 2026, World. Volatility is the typical weekly move over the last 26 weeks. How these are measured.

Regional Attention

By region

Latin America & Caribbean

16×

#17

15×

#37

6.5×

#42

1.3×

#120

1.1×

#160

0.94×

#155

0.75×

#177

0.55×

#186

0.52×

#177

0.49×

#229

This trend’s attention intensity in each region, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 11.

By bloc

3.5×

#52

1.9×

#91

1.3×

#134

0.83×

#173

0.59×

#180

0.56×

#181

0.55×

#186

0.49×

#183

0.37×

#217

0.28×

#237

This trend’s attention intensity in each bloc, the average of its member countries, and its rank there: the 10 highest of 13.

By country

121×

87×

27×

#19

25×

#13

21×

#18

14×

#25

11×

#30

8.3×

#65

8.0×

#63

7.4×

#48

This trend’s attention intensity in each country, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 48.

Attention Index over time

The attention index, worldwide and in each region: 100 is the typical trend in each place, the median of every trend's attention there over the past 52 weeks.

Attention to Household debt, by place

Attention index, a four-week rolling average, on a log scale. 100 is the typical trend in each place, so a line at 1,000 is ten times the typical trend’s attention there. A country chosen at the top of the page is drawn beside its region and the world. Select a place below to bring its line forward.