UK Savers Have £371bn Shortfall

Published / Last Updated on 02/09/2021

The Yorkshire Building Society has released its latest ‘The Nation’s Nest Egg’ report claims that the UK population has a savings shortfall of £371bn.  The survey of 2,000 UK adults from a wide range of society conducted in partnership the Centre for Economics and Business Research, found that the average adult felt secure with an emergency savings ‘nest egg’ of £17,465.

On the secure savings target of £17,465, the average savings held per adult in the UK was £10,245, meaning an average shortfall of £7,220.  Averaging that across the adult population, rather than just 2,000 adult, this equates to £371bn.  The emergency savings ‘nest egg’ focusses on our ability to deal with financial shocks such as job losses, relationship breakdown and others e.g.  furlough, covid-19 and lockdown.

Interestingly, throughout the pandemic, adults had been able to save up additional reserves of a staggering £190bn to being the emergency savings gap down to £371bn.  Many people have been able to save through lockdown due to less travel expenses, not going out shopping or socialising, no holidays and ‘ mend and make do’. 

Across the regions, the North of England was still the least financially resilient with just 40% having enough savings.  London improved with 48%, Scotland at 56% and the East of England, topped sustainability savings with 61% in a secure position.

Read the report

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