This statistic provides information on mobile payment activities carried out by adult mobile payment users in the United States in 2015. During the survey, it was found that 14.5 percent of U.S. users had made an online purchase through their phones.
Using your mobile phone, have you done any of the following in the past 12 months?
Characteristic
Share of respondents
Sent money to relatives or friends within the U.S.
8.3%
Sent money to relatives or friends outside the U.S.
2.6%
Paid for something in a store using your mobile phone/app
9.9%
Paid for parking, a taxi, car service or public transit
6.4%
Paid bills online through a mobile web browser or app
18.7%
Purchased a physical item or digital content remotely by using a mobile phone’s web browser or an app
14.5%
Made a donation or other payment using a text message
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Federal Reserve. (March 30, 2016). Using your mobile phone, have you done any of the following in the past 12 months? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/244320/mobile-payment-activities-in-the-us/
Federal Reserve. "Using your mobile phone, have you done any of the following in the past 12 months?." Chart. March 30, 2016. Statista. Accessed July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/244320/mobile-payment-activities-in-the-us/
Federal Reserve. (2016). Using your mobile phone, have you done any of the following in the past 12 months?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/244320/mobile-payment-activities-in-the-us/
Federal Reserve. "Using Your Mobile Phone, Have You Done Any of The following in The past 12 Months?." Statista, Statista Inc., 30 Mar 2016, https://www.statista.com/statistics/244320/mobile-payment-activities-in-the-us/
Federal Reserve, Using your mobile phone, have you done any of the following in the past 12 months? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/244320/mobile-payment-activities-in-the-us/ (last visited July 22, 2024)
Using your mobile phone, have you done any of the following in the past 12 months? [Graph], Federal Reserve, March 30, 2016. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/244320/mobile-payment-activities-in-the-us/
