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Credit & debit card purchase transactions in the UK 2008-2016

Number of credit and debit card purchase transactions in the United Kingdom from 2008 to 2016 (in millions)
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The data displays the number of credit and debit card purchase transactions in the UK from 2008 to 2016. The peak of purchase transactions for this period was in 2016, when the amount reached over 14.8 billion transactions.

2008 7438
2009 7947
2010 8524
2011 9487
2012 10211
2013 10931
2014 12058
2015 13432
2016 14847