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Official dataUpdated 23 Oct 2026

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

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)

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What this number really says

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).

21.2%

the latest figure (2022)

Official data

type of source

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.

Key facts

  • Period 2022
  • Region USA
  • Company size All sizes
  • Next data Irregular

Source: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB research on Buy Now, Pay Later, 2022

Method and use

How it was measured, and how to use it

How it was measured
Publisher
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB research on Buy Now, Pay Later
Source type
Official data: Government statistics office or regulator
What it measures
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
Data period
2022 (ends 31 Dec 2022)
Published by the source
13 Jan 2025
Who is counted
Loan-level data from six large BNPL firms matched to deidentified credit records.
In the source's words
Among consumers with a credit record, 21.2 percent financed at least one purchase with a BNPL loan, up from 17.6 percent in 2021.
Checked at source
23 Oct 2026: Read on consumerfinance.gov newsroom archive, CFPB release of 13 Jan 2025 (page marked as archived content).
Reuse
Public domain (US government work). Page is in the CFPB newsroom archive; cite with the release date.
Next expected update
Irregular (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, irregular)
Original page
www.consumerfinance.gov: CFPB research on Buy Now, Pay Later
Data files
CSV · JSON (stable links)
Full change log

No changes recorded yet. First checked at the source on 23 Oct 2026.

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APA

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

MLA

"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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