The data depicts the total number of credit card accounts in the UK from January 2016 to July 2018. This total includes both those accounts which are considered active and those which are not, with between approx. 67% and 69% of all accounts being counted as active during this period. It can be seen that the total number of credit card accounts in the UK fluctuated during this period, reaching a total of nearly 50.4 million accounts as of July 2018. The biggest number of accounts recorded during this period were found in February 2016, where a total of 50.
