Share of People Who Buy Clothes They'll Never Wear, by Country

According to Statista Consumer Insights, many consumers admit to often buying clothes they never wear. In these cases, they could have saved 100 percent off the retail price by simply resisting the urge to splurge. As our chart shows, female shoppers are more often guilty of wardrobe overload across countries. The prevalence of needless shopping varies from country to country, however, ranging from 29 percent of female respondents in the UK to just 12 percent in China. In the United States, 23 percent of women and 19 percent of men admitted to often buying clothes that ends up in the bottom drawer of their dressers.