HECS / HELP Outstanding Debt and Repayments (Annual)
ATO Higher Education Loan Program statistics - annual snapshot of total incurred HECS/HELP debt, indexation, compulsory + voluntary repayments, and write-offs from 2005-06 to 2024-25.
Source: Australian Taxation Office · Licensed CC-BY 3.0 AU · dataset id ato.HELP_DEBT
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curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/ato/HELP_DEBTReturns JSON with the original Australian Taxation Office attribution on every response. Add:
?format=csvfor CSV?limit=1000to fetch more than the default page?start=/?end=to window a time-series dataset by period
Full description
ATO Higher Education Loan Program statistics - annual snapshot of total incurred HECS/HELP debt, indexation, compulsory + voluntary repayments, and write-offs from 2005-06 to 2024-25. Universally relatable: every Australian uni graduate has interacted with this system. Headline 2024-25 numbers: $125.25B total debt, $21.76B annual indexation, $52.07B in compulsory repayments, $11.82B in voluntary repayments. Source: ATO Study and Training Support Loans dataset on data.gov.au.
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