How Australian households became the most indebted in the world
by Philip Soos from Economics | The Guardian on (#10QP1)
The rapid rise of capital city house prices in the past two years has propelled Australia past Denmark with a ratio of 123.08% debt to GDP, analysis shows
The results are in: Australian households have more debt compared to the size of the country's economy than any other in the world.
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