Note: Total borrowers accounts only for borrowers who held outstanding student-loan debt at the time the data were collected, and borrower counts are at the loan level, so recipients with more than one loan are double-counted. The 2021 and 2017 data are as of the end of the second quarter of the 2021 federal fiscal year, which was through March 31, 2021.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Federal Student Aid Office