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Official dataUpdated 23 Oct 2026

16%of US adults used buy now, pay later in the year to October 2025, up 1 point from the year before

16% of US adults used buy now, pay later in the year to October 2025, up 1 point from the year before (2025, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Board publications (SHED report, FEDS Notes, speeches))

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What this number really says

16% of US adults used buy now, pay later in the year to October 2025, up 1 point from the year before (2025).

16%

the latest figure (2025)

Official data

type of source

Why you can trust it. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Board publications (SHED report, FEDS Notes, speeches): official data, government statistics office or regulator. Federal Reserve Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED), US adults, fielded October 2025.

Key facts

  • Period 2025
  • Region USA
  • Company size All sizes
  • Next data Yearly

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Board publications (SHED report, FEDS Notes, speeches), 2025

Method and use

How it was measured, and how to use it

How it was measured
Publisher
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Board publications (SHED report, FEDS Notes, speeches)
Source type
Official data: Government statistics office or regulator
What it measures
16% of US adults used buy now, pay later in the year to October 2025, up 1 point from the year before
Data period
2025 (ends 31 Oct 2025)
Published by the source
13 May 2026
Who is counted
Federal Reserve Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED), US adults, fielded October 2025.
In the source's words
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) use edged up 1 percentage point to 16 percent of all adults.
Checked at source
23 Oct 2026: Read in the Federal Reserve Board fact sheet for Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2025 (PDF on federalreserve.gov, 13 May 2026).
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Public domain (US government work). Free to reuse; cite the report or note by name and date.
Next expected update
Yearly (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, yearly (SHED); irregular (notes))
Original page
www.federalreserve.gov: Federal Reserve Board publications (SHED report, FEDS Notes, speeches)
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

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (2026). 16% of US adults used buy now, pay later in the year to October 2025, up 1 point from the year before. Via digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ecommerce/us-adults-using-bnpl

MLA

"16% of US adults used buy now, pay later in the year to October 2025, up 1 point from the year before." Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Board publications (SHED report, FEDS Notes, speeches), 2025. digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ecommerce/us-adults-using-bnpl.

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16% of US adults used buy now, pay later in the year to October 2025, up 1 point from the year before, for 2025, according to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Board publications (SHED report, FEDS Notes, speeches). We checked it at the source on 23 Oct 2026.

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