By the Numbers

400,000

Estimated number of people who have died from overdoses of legal and illegal opioids since 1999

$18 billion

Value of the settlement agreement that’s in the works between three drug distributors – McKesson Corporation, AmerisourceBergen Corporation and Cardinal Health – and state and local governments for the companies’ roles in fueling the opioid crisis. 

19

Percentage of U.S. households with six-figure incomes whose occupants rent their homes, up from 12 percent in 2006

3.4 million

Number of people that equates to who would have been homeowners a generation ago

11

Percentage of home sales made to investors in 2018, the highest share on record

17 

The average annual percentage rate on interest-charging credit cards

8

Percentage increase, to $8,602, in the average credit-card debt of U.S. households since 2015

Sources: Wall Street Journal, CoreLogic