India’s household debt rises to 45.5% of GDP, modest by global standards. Thailand’s is 87.3%. But composition, not scale, is the worry. Non-housing retail loans, now 58.4% of household borrowing, are increasingly income-dependent rather than asset-backed. Gold loans, up 42.4% annually, add a collateral risk RBI is right to flag.
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One more metric of widespread economic pain.