Portugal: payment service share 2000-2021 | Statista

In Portugal, the card payment service including debit and credit payments stands out in the 2020 relative importance of payment services or instruments as a share of total transactions (in terms of transaction numbers). In that year, card payments accounted for over 69 percent of all transactions. In 2020, there were around 21.9 million payment cards issued in Portugal.

Distribution of selected payment services in the total number of payment transactions in Portugal 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
2000	49.4%	5.37%	11.53%	0.49%	32.88%	0.33%
2001	53.98%	5.61%	11.11%	0.3%	28.72%	0.28%
2002	57.93%	6.48%	10.53%	0.23%	24.58%	0.24%
2003	58.6%	8.22%	11.41%	0.11%	21.49%	0.18%
2004	61.11%	8.2%	11.1%	0.05%	19.41%	0.12%
2005	62.3%	8.72%	11.72%	0.08%	17.09%	0.09%
2006	63.67%	9.61%	11.69%	0.07%	14.87%	0.08%
2007	64.3%	10.26%	12.5%	0.11%	12.77%	0.06%
2008	64.31%	10.52%	14.26%	0.13%	10.73%	0.05%
2009	65.66%	11.09%	14.24%	0.13%	8.85%	0.04%
2010	68.05%	10.61%	13.77%	0.12%	7.41%	0.03%
2011	69.07%	11.27%	13.56%	0.12%	5.95%	0.02%
2012	68.7%	11.62%	14.26%	0.39%	5.01%	0.02%
2013	66.6%	14.84%	12.22%	1.71%	4.62%	0.02%
2014	66.2%	14.45%	8.94%	2.24%	3.94%	4.24%
2015	66.28%	13.52%	10.67%	2.48%	3.22%	3.83%
2016	67.13%	12.78%	11.3%	2.56%	2.73%	3.5%
2017	68.37%	12.26%	11.13%	2.7%	2.28%	3.26%
2018	70.38%	12.13%	9.72%	2.88%	1.91%	2.98%
2019	69.53%	12.89%	9.79%	3.42%	1.68%	2.68%
2020	69.66%	14.07%	9.72%	2.89%	1.35%	2.3%
2021	72.15%	13.36%	8.82%	2.6%	0.99%	2.07%

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July 2022

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Portugal

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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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