Belgium: payment service share 2000-2021 | Statista

Card payment methods, both credit and debit, stand out in the relative importance of payment services or instruments as a share of total transactions (in terms of transaction numbers) in Belgium in 2020. Card payments accounted for over half of all transactions (50.7 percent). The amount of card payments amounted to over 2.34 billion that year in Belgium.

Distribution of selected payment services in the total number of payment transactions in Belgium from 2000 to 2021

Characteristic	Cards (credit or debit), without e-money function	Credit transfer	Direct debit	E-money purchase transactions	Checks	Other payment services
2021	52.02%	36.05%	10.23%	0.89%	0.01%	1.15%
2020	50.68%	36.16%	11.25%	1.18%	0.01%	0.67%
2019	50.24%	36.82%	11.39%	0.97%	0.02%	0.57%
2018	49.28%	37.59%	11.78%	1.17%	0.03%	0.14%
2017	47.78%	39.22%	12.4%	0.48%	0.04%	0.07%
2016	48.96%	37.75%	12.88%	0.32%	0.06%	0.04%
2015	46.21%	40.3%	12.94%	0.22%	0.08%	0.03%
2014	43.91%	39.69%	15.38%	0.36%	0.08%	0.04%
2013	49.31%	37.86%	11.59%	1.09%	0.16%	-
2012	48.86%	37.71%	11.38%	1.84%	0.22%	-
2011	46.12%	41.02%	10.57%	2.02%	0.26%	0%
2010	44.71%	42.13%	10.31%	2.54%	0.3%	0.01%
2009	43.56%	41.64%	11.37%	3.08%	0.35%	0.01%
2008	42.5%	42.11%	11.28%	3.69%	0.4%	0.01%
2007	41.03%	42.75%	11.43%	4.28%	0.5%	0.01%
2006	40.29%	42.47%	11.69%	4.85%	0.68%	0.02%
2005	39.03%	43.15%	11.57%	5.39%	0.83%	0.02%
2004	37.36%	43.85%	11.76%	5.95%	1.07%	0.02%
2003	36.82%	43.78%	11.53%	6.42%	1.42%	0.03%
2002	33.88%	47.39%	9.91%	7.09%	1.7%	0.03%
2001	32.56%	48.12%	11.47%	3.92%	3.89%	0.04%
2000	32.04%	47.19%	11.95%	3.69%	5.09%	0.05%

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July 2022

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Belgium

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2000 to 2021

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Missing percentage points to 100 percent are probably due to rounding

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