Europe: credit card spending by country 2000-2020

The payments made using cards with a credit function carried out in countries belonging to the European Union (EU) as of 2020 can be divided by country. In France, the value of payments made using cards with a credit function amounted to approximately 31.9 billion euros in 2019, almost 20 billion euros more than was seen in Ireland.

Value of payments with cards with a credit function, issued by resident PSPs, in 23 countries in Europe from 2000 to 2020 (in million euros)

Characteristic	France	Sweden	Poland	Ireland	Finland	Germany	Luxembourg	Belgium	Greece	Denmark	Austria	Czechia	Romania	Hungary	Cyprus	Slovakia	Bulgaria	Estonia	Lithuania	Latvia	Slovenia	Croatia	Malta
2000	-	1,961.71	461.06	4,000	-	-	-	-	3,092.12	1,475.75	-	-	2.94	48.3	427.55	-	-	-	13.11	-	29.47	-	-
2001	-	2,475.28	608.91	6,096	-	-	1,164.57	-	2,120.28	1,603.31	-	-	2.25	84.62	535.14	15.11	11.23	-	20.89	-	48.82	-	66.97
2002	-	2,046.16	1,126.92	7,282	-	-	1,323.02	-	2,185.37	1,749.54	-	-	15.05	151.39	642.86	35.78	19.36	-	20.68	-	59.23	-	76.47
2003	-	2,528.32	1,253.08	8,066.7	-	-	1,358.54	-	4,289.26	1,749.5	-	-	30.81	209.48	717.56	55.36	29.41	-	43.24	-	78.5	-	111.81
2004	-	2,476.89	1,581.91	9,345.7	-	-	1,423.75	-	5,432.8	3,621.71	-	200.96	152.6	281.87	1,007.39	97.36	91.49	193.98	59.89	-	83.08	-	135.08
2005	-	2,908.8	2,463.54	10,680	-	-	1,472.18	-	6,389.22	4,076.44	-	230.83	122.25	390.37	931.48	159.52	113.76	234.35	118.47	-	93.82	-	164.63
2006	-	3,349.76	3,183.7	12,567	-	-	1,602.5	-	6,342.22	4,418.36	3,205	325.37	221.62	555.87	1,041.29	265.82	69.23	341.06	208.87	-	104.59	-	200.04
2007	-	3,567.53	4,233.57	14,060	-	3,315	1,794.91	-	7,346.87	4,943.36	3,461	423.22	626.01	748.82	1,315.39	352.94	187.5	452.79	313.63	413.18	104.82	-	253.32
2008	-	6,957.71	5,184.01	13,880.6	-	3,037	1,935.44	-	7,733.44	5,741.25	3,687	568.81	763.62	852.53	1,536.88	514.72	284.01	520.14	383.09	663.55	131.88	-	313.91
2009	-	5,895.06	4,706.91	11,860	-	2,711	1,959.38	-	7,121.13	3,134.71	3,735	661.57	581.82	764.17	1,486.25	598.53	360	472.32	332.83	437.87	111.42	-	344.63
2010	-	7,528.36	5,591.06	11,273	-	2,581	2,524.59	-	5,879.75	3,576.08	4,218	883.91	651.93	787.06	1,486.04	588.42	355.51	476.48	395.66	430.1	113.71	-	392.49
2011	-	7,530.58	5,802.03	10,672	-	3,144	3,272.77	-	5,172.39	4,006.13	4,449	1,216.94	819.32	860.42	1,599.73	602.68	408.73	509.28	483.03	425.11	117.04	-	418.39
2012	-	8,164	6,217.79	10,530	-	3,281	3,697.32	-	4,576.75	4,195.68	4,734	1,605.92	939.33	997.89	1,653.22	647.07	450.34	515.4	530.97	435.29	119.43	-	462.07
2013	-	8,700.42	6,995.07	10,030	-	4,454	3,825.06	-	4,181.66	4,330.32	5,010	1,736.52	1,070.93	1,177.58	1,444.88	785.72	468.77	520.86	570.78	445.03	129.35	197.96	486.3
2014	5,542.77	8,915.51	7,448.02	6,027.43	2,749.17	4,939.3	4,333.63	5,547.04	4,025.84	4,576.41	5,314.28	1,981.84	1,307.13	1,396.24	1,301.1	976.38	825.64	681.87	605.89	601.99	146.85	113.58	527.02
2015	13,053.39	15,871.24	7,545.93	7,066.93	2,974.86	5,816.24	4,657.35	5,360.07	4,212.36	4,946.85	5,220.85	2,820.44	1,471.08	1,610.94	1,392.14	1,044.37	946.83	725.12	662.9	721.45	165.24	104.34	576.6
2016	13,264.22	18,897.65	8,342.22	8,659	3,462.32	6,016.78	5,118.03	5,531.88	4,924.4	4,850.78	5,443.16	3,202.06	1,814.25	1,855.72	1,376.59	1,131.28	1,070.65	776.43	721.38	836.35	156.92	53.26	637.47
2017	27,444.73	18,113.37	9,301.9	8,984.39	6,689.82	6,796.9	5,870.17	6,103.72	5,491.2	5,615.15	5,748.57	3,884.52	2,135.49	2,187.07	1,436.64	1,271.31	1,222.26	869.08	824.16	979.87	198.16	53.3	807.05
2018	32,507.34	22,084.17	10,319.22	9,770.31	6,879.12	7,785.42	6,715.02	6,482.64	5,717.48	6,244.86	6,147.18	3,951.8	2,578.34	2,573.52	1,615.31	1,298.37	1,297.61	920.83	932.23	912.45	221.77	50.62	831.89
2019	31,892.26	24,395.31	11,379.39	12,108.09	6,725.49	8,914.94	7,419.1	6,780.76	5,823.15	7,096.78	6,388.11	3,534.09	2,975.22	2,813.71	1,661.08	1,461.47	1,321.59	977.47	949.2	906.76	243.84	64.67	948.11
2020	30,301.62	21,293.63	10,162.54	8,968.07	7,603.11	7,515.52	6,876.98	5,461.6	5,242.36	5,224.7	5,019.3	3,414.04	2,873.09	2,512.55	1,462.63	1,430	1,084.54	768.49	723.18	716.22	236.32	67.51	-

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July 2021

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2000 to 2020

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USD figures have been calculated by Statista. For more information, see the "Details" tab; No numbers were provided for credit cards from non-resident PSPs

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The figures have been taken from several publications.

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