Share of U.S. consumers feeling the impact of inflation 2022, by consumer group

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D. Tighe,
Dec 10, 2024
In 2022, the vast majority of struggling consumers with low purchase power in the United States said that the current wave of inflation has heavily impacted their financial situation. Overall, there were few consumers in the U.S. who said they had not felt the impact of rising prices at all.

Share of consumers in the United States who feel their financial situation has been impacted in the past few months in 2022, by consumer category

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Release date

April 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

April 8 to 14, 2022

Number of respondents

10,010 respondents

Supplementary notes

The respondents were spread among the different consumer groups as such:
- Struggling with low purchase power (19 percent)
- Struggling with high purchase power (13 percent)
- Pushing on (29 percent)
- Prospering (30 percent)
- Comfortably retired (9 percent)

The source asked consumers what effect rising prices/inflation had on their current financial situation in the past few months.

Percentage points exceeding or just under 100 percent are probably due to rounding.

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