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Total registered NFC payments in the Netherlands 2016-2018

Total registered Near Field Communication (NFC) payments in the Netherlands from 1st quarter of 2016 to 1st quarter of 2018 (in thousands)

The data displays the total number of registered Near Field Communication (NFC) payments in the Netherlands from the first quarter of 2016 to the first quarter of 2018 (in thousands). In the first quarter of 2018, approx. 483.7 million NFC payments were made in the Netherlands using either debit cards or mobile phones.

NFC payments were introduced in the Netherlands in 2014 and mainly involves contactless payments made at points of sales, with either a debit card or a mobile phone or payments via QR codes. These methods are supported and developed by Dutch banks, such as ING and Rabobank, with larger Fintech-services such as Android Pay, Apple Pay and Pay from Samsung not yet being released in the Netherlands.

Q1 2016 102535
Q2 2016 136467
Q3 2016 168815
Q4 2016 222146
Q1 2017 284692
Q2 2017 360986
Q3 2017 411723
Q4 2017 485705
Q1 2018 483721