Lesson 4 of 6
Household debt and the cost of credit
How much households owe, set against the size of the economy, and what they pay to borrow. This lesson places Southeast Asia against other economies on the IMF's household debt data and explains why lending rates are hard to compare.
Published 14 October 2026 · Listen to this lesson
In this lesson
- Two measures, one burden
- The dataset and its definitions
- Household debt around the world
- Debt and income
- The cost of credit
- Worked example: low debt is not a low burden
- Reading it as a lender