Citizens’ debt to banks exceeded 30 trillion rubles, Izvestia writes with reference to a study prepared according to the Central Bank, Rosstat and the credit bureau.
On May 1, the debt of the Russians amounted to 30.22 trillion rubles. According to the results of the first quarter of the year, it amounted to less than 28 trillion rubles. The debt burden level then reached 41%.
According to the forecasts of the authors of the study, the volume of debts will grow even more in the second quarter.
The highest debt load was recorded in Tyva, it amounted to 115%. This region is the second poorest according to Rosstat in 2023.
In second place is Kalmykia (79%), in third place is the Leningrad region (63%). In Udmurtia, the debt burden is set at 56%, in the Moscow region – 55%. The least indebted were residents of Ingushetia (15%), Chechnya (14%), Dagestan (13%), Sevastopol (9%) and Crimea (8%).
The volume of overdue debts is also growing. On May 1, it amounted to 1.11 trillion rubles. The average size of such a loan increased from 19.78 thousand rubles to 20.40 thousand rubles.
According to the Federal Resource, in the first quarter, the number of bankrupt citizens increased by 40.3% (up to 76 thousand people) compared to the same period in 2022. The authors of the study point out that this fact limits the delinquency growth.
Author:
Natalia Gormaleva
Source: RB
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