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Spaniards Start To Use Savings To Make Ends Meet

Spanish households placed their savings rate in the first quarter at -0.8% of their disposable income, thus registering their first negative rate since the first quarter of 2019. In the previous quarter, the household savings rate was 8.3%, the National Statistics Institute (INE) reported on Thursday. The fall in the household savings rate to -0.8% is due to the fact that they spent more than they earned. Thus, their disposable…


Household savings rate at historical lows

Should We Be Concerned About The Low Household Savings Rate?

The household savings rate lay below 6% of gross disposable income in 2017, a figure similar to 2007 just before the real estate bubble burst, and well below the peak reached in 2009 of 13.4%. What factors explain the sharp decline that has occurred in the last few years?  CaixaBank Research focuses on this issue.