Number of adults with a form of credit in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by type
This statistic displays the number of adults in the United Kingdom (UK) that had in October 2017 - or in the prior 12 months - a form of credit or loan, by type of credit. Approximately 39.6 million adults in the UK had a form of credit or loan in 2017. Among these, 31.6 million adults in the United Kingdom owned a credit card and nearly 13 million had an overdraft account in 2017. What could be perceived as alarming is the number of UK adults that had a high-cost loan in 2017, with approximately 3.1 million.