Overview
- Creditreform will release the latest edition at 10:00 a.m. on Friday.
- The agency’s experts have forecast that the number of overindebted people in Germany will rise again in 2025.
- For 2024, Creditreform counted about 5.56 million overindebted adults, roughly 94,000 fewer than in 2023, equal to 8.09% of the adult population.
- Creditreform attributed the 2024 decrease primarily to a stronger propensity to save among consumers.
- Overindebtedness is defined as a long‑term inability to meet financial obligations, and the report aggregates anonymized inputs from official registers, online retailers, and other sources.