The data displays the total number of debit and credit cards in the Netherlands from 2005 to 2017. In 2017, there approx. 259 million debit cards in the Netherlands. Between 2006 and 2016, the total number of debit cards increased from 25.5 million in 2006 to 27.7 million in 2016. In this same period, though, Dutch consumers increasingly paid for their purchases by debit card as the volume of debit card payment transactions increased with every passing year. Consumers made more use of debit cards, whilst technical disruptions have declined.
