Monthly growth in consumer card spending in the UK 2015-2022
Consumers' card spending in the United Kingdom (UK) slowed down considerably following March 2020, due to the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. According to the most recently reported data, consumer card spending in the UK picked up pace again, growing by 17.7 percent as of March 2022 compared to the pre-pandemic levels in the same month of 2019. In this statistic, in order to give a more accurate comparison, data from March 2021 onwards were provided as comparisons to 2019.