What percentage of uk residents have credit/debit cards?
I am looking for some statistics for an article i am writing.
are there published statisitics showing the percentage of uk residents that hold:
1. a credit card
2. a debit card
if you could provide an established source link to bank up the figures, it would help.
thank you.
Answer
Uk stats: there were 141.6 million payment cards in issue - 69.9 million credit cards, 4.7 million charge cards and 67.0 million debit cards. the number of personal debit cardholders reached 40.8 million, and has grown by 16.4 million over the past ten years. 84% of adults hold a debit card. the number of personal credit and charge cards reached 31.6 million, over two-thirds of the over-18 population, and has grown by 14 million over the past ten years. the average number of cards per person was 2.4 credit cards and 1.6 debit cards.
