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By Matt Schulz

This page contains credit card statistics for Australia and other nations around the world -- including s tatis tics on credit card debt, credit card delinquencies, credit scores,
credit card interest rates, bankruptcies and m ore -- compiled by the Australia.CreditCards.com s taff. Statis tics on this page will be updated regularly as we receive new or
updated credit card data.

AUSTRALIA
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There were an estim ated 36 million debit cards and 16 m illion credit cards in circulation in Australia in 2009. (Source: Eurom onitor
International, January 2010)
Res erve Bank of Australia "figures s how m ortgage, credit card and personal loan debts now stand at $1.2 trillion, up 71 per cent Below is a list of the various
from just five years ago and equating to $56,000 for every man, woman and child in the country." (Source: Sydney Morning Herald, categories of s tatis tics on this
Decem ber 2009) page. Click the link for m ore
Debit card ATM withdrawals per account dropped 6.3 per cent in 2009 to 2.39 a m onth last year. That's compared with 2.55 in the inform ation.
previous year and 2.62 in 2006. (Source: The Australian, January 2010)
Australia’s total rate of cheque and payment card fraud has risen to 9 cents for every $1,000 of payments, up from 7 cents. (Source: Australia
Australian Payments Clearing Association, Decem ber 2009)
Australians spent $19.189 billion on credit and charge cards in October 2009. (Source: Reserve Bank of Aus tralia, Decem ber 2009) Credit card, debit card
The average credit card account balance was $3,141 in October 2009. (Source: Reserve Bank of Australia, December 2009) statistics
Total credit and charge card balances outstanding stood at $45.153 billion in October 2009. (Source: Reserve Bank of Australia,
Decem ber 2009) Worldwide
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WORLDWIDE DATA statistics
Outstanding national credit card balances, in billions .
(Note: All figures are in U.S. dollars.) Individual nations
US - $775.0
UK - $87.5 Brazil
Canada - $73.9 Canada
Australia - $40.4 China
(Source: USA Today, Decem ber 2009) France
Germany
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Indonesia
INDIVIDUAL NATION DATA
Israel
Brazil
Japan
Mexico
There were an estim ated 233 million debit cards and 191 million credit cards in circulation in Brazil in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor The Philippines
International, January 2010) Poland
Between 2004 and 2007, the number of credit cards in Brazil more than doubled. (Source: Com paniesandMarkets.com, December Rus sia
2008) Saudi Arabia
South Korea
Canada Spain
Thailand
Turkey
There were an estim ated 37 million debit cards and 72 m illion credit cards in circulation in Canada in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor
United Kingdom
International, January 2010)
United States
Total outstanding credit-card debt hit $78 billion in September, up from $76 billion in September 2008, according to Equifax Canada.
Venezuela
(Source: Toronto Star, December 2009)
Vietnam
Ninety-day credit card delinquencies jumped 53 per cent between September 2008 and Septem ber 2009, hitting $3.6 billion. Among
major cities, Toronto has the nation's highest delinquency rate (2.14 per cent) in October. The average national rate is 1.67 per cent.
(Source: Toronto Star, December 2009)
Canadians spent almost $267 billion on their cards in 2008. (Source: Toronto Star, December 2009)

China

There were an estim ated 1.8 billion debit cards and 199 m illion credit cards in circulation in China in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor International, January 2010)
In China, growth in the num ber of credit cards averaged jus t over 23% from 2004 to 2007, and then surged to nearly 93% in the first half of 2008. (Source:
Com paniesandMarkets.com , December 2008)

France

There were an estim ated 78 million debit cards and 34 m illion credit cards in circulation in France in 2009. (Source: Eurom onitor International, January 2010)

Germany

There were an estim ated 91 million debit cards and 4 m illion credit cards in circulation in Germ any in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor International, January 2010)

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India

There were an estim ated 130 million debit cards and 24 million credit cards in circulation in India in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor International, January 2010)
Between 2004 and 2007, outstanding credit card debt in India tripled. (Source: CompaniesandMarkets.com, December 2008)

Indonesia

There were an estim ated 39 million debit cards and 10 m illion credit cards in circulation in Indonesia in 2009. (Source: Eurom onitor International, January 2010)

Israel

There were an estim ated 160,000 debit cards and 6 million credit cards in circulation in Israel in 2009. (Source: Eurom onitor International, January 2010)

Japan

There were an estim ated 427 million debit cards and 346 million credit cards in circulation in Japan in 2009. (Source: Eurom onitor International, January 2010)

Mexico

There were an estim ated 12 million debit cards and 26 m illion credit cards in circulation in Mexico in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor International, January 2010)
Between 2004 and 2007, the number of credit cards in Mexico more than doubled. (Source: Com paniesandMarkets.com, December 2008)

Poland

Between 2004 and 2007, the number of cards in circulation in Poland tripled. (Source: CompaniesandMarkets .com , Decem ber 2008)

The Philippines

There were an estim ated 33 million debit cards and 8 m illion credit cards in circulation in The Philippines in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor International, January 2010)

Russia

There were an estim ated 119 million debit cards and 10 million credit cards in circulation in Russia in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor International, January 2010)

Saudi Arab ia

There were an estim ated 22 million debit cards and 3 m illion credit cards in circulation in Saudi Arabia in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor International, January 2010)

South Korea

There were an estim ated 66 million debit cards and 96 m illion credit cards in circulation in South Korea in 2009. (Source: Eurom onitor International, January 2010)
The nation's credit card spending saw double digit growth for the fifth straight year. The Credit Finance Ass ociation s aid card spending hit 332.7 trillion won in 2009, up
nearly 11 percent from '08. (Source: Korea Tim es, January 2010)
Statistics showed that plastic is quickly replacing cas h in everyday transactions. In private cons umption, payment using cards took only 5.6 percent of total expenditure in
1990. This rose to 45.7 percent in 2002, and marked 50.1 percent in 2008." (Source: Korea Times, January 2010)

Spain

There were an estim ated 31 million debit cards and 18 m illion credit cards in circulation in Spain in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor International, January 2010)

Thailand

There were an estim ated 29 million debit cards and 14 m illion credit cards in circulation in Thailand in 2009. (Source: Eurom onitor International, January 2010)

Turkey

There were an estim ated 63 million debit cards and 45 m illion credit cards in circulation in Turkey in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor International, January 2010)

United Kingdom

There were an estim ated 80 million debit cards in circulation in the U.K in 2009. (Source: Eurom onitor International, January 2010)
There were 60.7 m illion cards in circulation at the end of November 2009. 69 percent of which had a balance outstanding. (Source: British Bankers Association, January
2010)
One in 12 households in London (or 8 per cent) have used credit cards to pay their m ortgage or rent in the last 12 months. Across Great Britain, 6 per cent of households
did the same, equivalent to more than one million people.(Source: Shelter Media Centre, January 2010)

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Outstanding credit card balances stood at £63.5 billion in November 2009. That's higher than the previous month but nearly £3 billion lower than a year earlier. (Source:
British Bankers Association, January 2010)

United States

There were an estim ated 488 million debit cards and 686 million credit cards in circulation in the United States in 2009. (Source: Eurom onitor International, January 2010)

Venezuela

There were an estim ated 12 million debit cards and 6 m illion credit cards in circulation in Venezuela in 2009. (Source: Euromonitor International, January 2010)

Vietnam

There were an estim ated 15 million debit cards and 2 m illion credit cards in circulation in Vietnam in 2009. (Source: Eurom onitor International, January 2010)

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Updated: August 17, 2010

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