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Volume of transactions in Canada 2001-2018, by type
In 2018, there were six billion debit card transactions and 6.1 billion credit card transactions carried out in Canada. Meanwhile, there were only 167 million check transactions in that year, which continues the 20-year downward trend of check usage in Canada.