Payments statistics: first half of 2024
- Total number of non-cash payments in the euro area in first half of 2024 increased by 7.4% to 72.1billion compared with the first half of 2023, with total value rising by 1.9% to €113.5 trillion
- Card payments accounted for 56% of total number of non-cash payments in first half of 2024, credittransfers for 22%, direct debits for 15% and e-money payments for 6%1
- Number of contactless card payments in first half of 2024 increased by 13.2% to 25.8 billioncompared with the first half of 2023, with total value rising by 13.1% to €0.7 trillion
- Number of payment cards in circulation at the end of the first half of 2024 increased by 4.4% to720.6 million compared with the first half of 2023, averaging two payment cards per euro area inhabitant, with an average value of around €39 per card transaction
- Around 52.1 billion transactions processed by retail payment systems in euro area in first half of2024, worth €25.1 trillion
Published on the 30th of January 2025