Average Debt Amount of Japanese Households

Japanese government conducts surveys about people's debts and savings. The government researchs on only the households which have more than two members. The survey does not cover single households.

According to the survey in 2013, 38.7% of households (having more than two members) have their debts. The average debts of the households in debt was 12,910,000 yen (=$126,568 €91,560). US Dollar and Euro tables are under the Japanese Yen tables.

Table 1: Debts of the households which have more than two members (unit 10,000 yen)

Year	Average debt among all households	Yearly Income	Average debt/Income	Ratio of households in debt	Average debt among households in debt	Median debt among households in debt
2002	537	683	78.6	43.4	1239	734
2003	508	660	77.0	42.9	1183	719
2004	524	650	80.6	42.8	1223	808
2005	501	645	77.7	40.8	1227	798
2006	506	645	78.4	41.0	1233	815
2007	505	649	77.8	40.6	1242	892
2008	498	637	78.2	41.1	1211	830
2009	479	630	76.0	40.5	1184	860
2010	489	616	79.4	40.0	1223	859
2011	462	612	75.5	38.2	1207	888
2012	469	606	77.4	38.9	1208	862
2013	499	616	81.0	38.7	1291	981

of which the wage-workers households

Year	Average debt among all households	Yearly Income	Average debt/Income	Ratio of households in debt	Average debt among households in debt	Median debt among households in debt
2002	607	748	81.1	52.2	1164	797
2003	605	721	83.9	51.6	1171	875
2004	655	730	89.7	52.7	1242	975
2005	616	719	85.7	49.8	1238	965
2006	624	713	87.5	51.2	1219	948
2007	664	718	92.5	51.3	1294	1033
2008	652	717	90.9	52.4	1244	985
2009	643	709	90.7	52.8	1216	1010
2010	679	697	97.4	52.8	1287	1036
2011	647	689	93.9	51.9	1246	1035
2012	695	691	100.6	53.5	1300	1077
2013	740	708	104.5	54.0	1369	1180

Source is Statistics Bureau.

www.stat.go.jp/data/sav/1.htm

www.stat.go.jp/data/sav/sokuhou/nen/pdf/h25_gai3.pdf

Table 2: Debts of the households which have more than two members (unit $)

Year	Average debt among all households ($)	Yearly income ($)	Average debt among households in debt ($)	Median debt among households in debt ($)
2002	52,647	66,960	121,470	71,960
2003	49,803	64,705	115,980	70,490
2004	51,372	63,725	119,901	79,215
2005	49,117	63,235	120,294	78,235
2006	49,607	63,235	120,882	79,901
2007	49,509	63,627	121,764	87,450
2008	48,823	62,450	118,725	81,372
2009	46,960	61,764	116,078	84,313
2010	47,941	60,392	119,901	84,215
2011	45,294	60,000	118,333	87,058
2012	45,980	59,411	118,431	84,509
2013	48,921	60,392	126,568	96,176
of which wage-workers
2002	59,509	73,333	114,117	78,137
2003	59,313	70,686	114,803	85,784
2004	64,215	71,568	121,764	95,588
2005	60,392	70,490	121,372	94,607
2006	61,176	69,901	119,509	92,941
2007	65,098	70,392	126,862	101,274
2008	63,921	70,294	121,960	96,568
2009	63,039	69,509	119,215	99,019
2010	66,568	68,333	126,176	101,568
2011	63,431	67,549	122,156	101,470
2012	68,137	67,745	127,450	105,588
2013	72,549	69,411	134,215	115,686

Table 3: Debts of the households which have more than two members (unit Euro)

Year	Average debt among all households (Euro)	Yearly income(Euro)	Average debt among households in debt (Euro)	Median debt among households in debt (Euro)
2002	39,197	49,854	90,437	53,576
2003	37,080	48,175	86,350	52,481
2004	38,248	47,445	89,270	58,978
2005	36,569	47,080	89,562	58,248
2006	36,934	47,080	90,000	59,489
2007	36,861	47,372	90,656	65,109
2008	36,350	46,496	88,394	60,583
2009	34,963	45,985	86,423	62,773
2010	35,693	44,963	89,270	62,700
2011	33,722	44,671	88,102	64,817
2012	34,233	44,233	88,175	62,919
2013	36,423	44,963	94,233	71,605
of which wage-workers
2002	44,306	54,598	84,963	58,175
2003	44,160	52,627	85,474	63,868
2004	47,810	53,284	90,656	71,167
2005	44,963	52,481	90,364	70,437
2006	45,547	52,043	88,978	69,197
2007	48,467	52,408	94,452	75,401
2008	47,591	52,335	90,802	71,897
2009	46,934	51,751	88,759	73,722
2010	49,562	50,875	93,941	75,620
2011	47,226	50,291	90,948	75,547
2012	50,729	50,437	94,890	78,613
2013	54,014	51,678	99,927	86,131

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