21.2%About 1 in 5of US consumers with a credit record financed at least one purchase with buy now, pay later in 2022, up from 17.6% in 2021
21.2% of US consumers with a credit record financed at least one purchase with buy now, pay later in 2022, up from 17.6% in 2021 (2022, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB research on Buy Now, Pay Later)
Official dataChecked at source, 23 Oct 2026All sizesUSAE-commerce · Buy now, pay later
21.2% of US consumers with a credit record financed at least one purchase with buy now, pay later in 2022, up from 17.6% in 2021 (2022).
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Why you can trust it. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB research on Buy Now, Pay Later: official data, government statistics office or regulator. Loan-level data from six large BNPL firms matched to deidentified credit records.
No changes recorded yet. First checked at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (2025). 21.2% of US consumers with a credit record financed at least one purchase with buy now, pay later in 2022, up from 17.6% in 2021. Via digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ecommerce/consumers-with-credit-record-using-bnpl
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"21.2% of US consumers with a credit record financed at least one purchase with buy now, pay later in 2022, up from 17.6% in 2021." Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB research on Buy Now, Pay Later, 2022. digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ecommerce/consumers-with-credit-record-using-bnpl.
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21.2% of US consumers with a credit record financed at least one purchase with buy now, pay later in 2022, up from 17.6% in 2021, for 2022, according to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB research on Buy Now, Pay Later. We checked it at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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