Washington Residents Face High Debt Compared To Other States

Debt is something that a lot of people struggle with. From student loans to just maxing out a credit card to make ends meet between jobs, there's a lot of reasons why people go into debt.

Global home loan website Compare the Market did a recent study to see how debt-ridden most people are in each country and broke it down from there as well.

As a unit, The United States is 2nd least financially stressed country in the world.

Second only to Belgium.
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But for each states, they say Washington State is 3rd for most people who have debt.

From Compare the Market, the average person in the United States has $58,725. That's on average.

Again, that's average for the United States. $58,725 is down the middle of all states.

Washington is 3rd most with debt so it's higher than that.

Washington's average is $83,820.

The only states worse than Washington for debt is California in 2nd place with $86,000 in debt and Colorado in first place with $90,540 in debt.
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That's a lot of debt.

When it comes to countries that are the most debt-stressed, first place goes to Greece.

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With an average salary that makes it hard to make a living wage, people are sure feeling it in Greece.

Same goes for the other debt-stressed countries like Columbia, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Slovakia rounding out the top 5.