Households Debt, with Outstanding Student Debt, 1989-2010
The weight of debt from college loans has already made a substantial impact on U.S. households. A Pew Research Center analysis of government data that became available last year found that 19% of the nation’s households owed student debt in 2010, more than double the share two decades earlier, and a significant rise from the 15% that owed such debt in 2007, just prior to the onset of the Great Recession.
Households Debt, with Outstanding  | Student Debt, 1989-2010  | 19%  | 15%  | 13%  | 12%  | 11% 12%  | 11%  | "/o  | 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010  | Note: Includes education loans that are currentlyin  | deferment and loans in scheduled repayment period.  | Source: Pew Research Center tabulations ofSurvey of  | Consumer Finances data  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 