The number of credit cards in use in the United Kingdom was forecast to continuously decrease between 2024 and 2029 by in total 0.02 million cards (-0.03 percent). The number is estimated to amount to 63.62 million cards in 2029. Shown is the estimated number of credit cards currently in use.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

Aggregated and anonymized purchase data from consumer credit and debit card spending. Spending is reported based on the ZIP code where the cardholder lives, not the ZIP code where transactions occurred. Data from Affinity Solutions, compiled by Opportunity Insights. Update Frequency: Weekly Date Range: January 13th until the most recent date available. Data Frequency: Data is daily until the final two weeks of the series, and the daily data is presented as a 7 day lookback moving average. For the final two weeks of the series, the data is weekly and presented as weekly data points. Index Period: January 4th - January 31st Indexing Type: Seasonally adjusted change since January 2020. Data is indexed in 2019 and 2020 as the change relative to the January index period. We then seasonally adjust by dividing year-over-year, which represents the difference between the change since January observed in 2020 compared to the change since January observed since 2019. We account for differences in the dates of federal holidays between 2019 and 2020 by shifting the 2019 reference data to align the holidays before performing the year-over-year division.

The number of debit cards in use in the United Kingdom was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 4.8 million cards (+4.47 percent). After the eleventh consecutive increasing year, the number is estimated to reach 112.2 million cards and therefore a new peak in 2029. Shown is the estimated number of debit cards currently in use.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

The debit card penetration in the United Kingdom was forecast to continuously decrease between 2024 and 2029 by in total 0.2 percentage points. According to this forecast, in 2029, the debit card penetration will have decreased for the eighth consecutive year to 94.82 percent. The penetration rate refers to the share of the total population who use debit cards.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).