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Cash fell from 79 to 52 per cent of euro area shop payments in eight years, and is still the most used method in most countries

52%39%6%Cash, by numberCards, by numberMobile, by number2016201920222024

Share of point of sale transactions by number, from the central bank's study of payment attitudes of consumers in the euro area. The 2019 mobile figure is printed as both less than 1 per cent and 1 per cent in the same document; 1 is plotted here and both are stated. No edition publishes a confidence interval, standard error or margin of error.

The central bank's own diary survey puts cash at 52 per cent of point of sale transactions by number in 2024, down from 79 per cent in 2016. By value it is 39 per cent. No edition of the survey publishes any significance statistic.

52%Cash share of shop payments by number, 2024
79%Same measure, 2016
39%Cash share by value, 2024
14 of 20Countries where cash was still most used, 2024

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