France: payment service share 2000-2021 | Statista

The relative importance of payment services or instruments as a share of total transactions (in terms of transaction numbers) in France as of 2020 indicates that card payments were ranked as the most important payment instrument on that market. They accounted for over 57 percent of all transactions. Direct debit payments ranked second with 19.1 percent of transactions.

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

Characteristic	Cards (credit or debit), without e-money function	Direct debit	Credit transfer	Checks	E-money purchase transactions	Other payment services
2021	59.27%	18.53%	17.88%	4.08%	0.24%	0.11%
2020	57.39%	19.09%	18.52%	4.86%	0.15%	0.06%
2019	58.72%	17.56%	17.09%	6.38%	0.25%	0.06%
2018	56.56%	17.92%	17.18%	7.43%	0.26%	0.64%
2017	54.65%	18.63%	17.62%	8.77%	0.25%	0.08%
2016	52.6%	18.95%	17.95%	10.22%	0.18%	0.1%
2015	50.91%	19.2%	17.92%	11.44%	0.18%	0.36%
2014	49.78%	18.68%	18.02%	13.1%	0.28%	0.14%
2013	49.56%	17.18%	17.97%	14.49%	0.28%	0.51%
2012	46.91%	19.61%	17.14%	15.53%	0.29%	0.53%
2011	45.11%	20.15%	16.98%	16.94%	0.27%	0.56%
2010	43.33%	20%	17.53%	18.31%	0.24%	0.59%
2009	42.16%	19.88%	16.99%	20.11%	0.22%	0.64%
2008	41.16%	19.02%	16.97%	21.94%	0.2%	0.69%
2007	39.75%	18.82%	16.91%	23.61%	0.17%	0.74%
2006	37.6%	18.32%	17.52%	25.62%	0.13%	0.8%
2005	36.87%	17.67%	16.93%	27.53%	0.12%	0.88%
2004	33.05%	18.07%	18.47%	29.38%	0.11%	0.92%
2003	31.71%	17.19%	18.9%	31.12%	0.13%	0.95%
2002	30.68%	16.36%	19.21%	32.59%	0.14%	1.02%
2001	29.68%	16.69%	17.59%	35.09%	0.02%	0.93%
2000	27.48%	16.43%	17.48%	37.51%	0%	1.1%

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July 2022

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France

Survey time period

2000 to 2021

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Missing percentage points to 100 percent are probably due to rounding

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