STATISTICS ABOUT CREDIT CARDS

Number of credit cards with the Visa brand on them: 1.7 billion
Number of credit cards with the Mastercard brand: 959 million
Number of transactions processed by VisaNet in their latest quarter: 10.3 billion
Number of transactions processed by Banknet (MC) in the past year: 21 billion



Let’s put it on a scale for perspective,

Approx. Visa/MasterCard transactions per year: 62,000,000,000 (that’s billion)
Number of seconds per year: 31,556,926



That’s 1,971 Visa & MasterCard transactions per second!


Estimated cardholders worldwide: 400,000,000 (400 million)

That’s 6.64 cards per cardholder!


Now assuming that everyone uses their cards equally,

That’s 155 transactions per person per year! (or one transaction each every 2.3 days)