Statistics

Visa Inc. is the world’s largest payments company, with more than US$4.0 trillion of total volume as of March 31, 2008.

Visa volume statistics by payment type are included below.*

Operational Performance Data
Four quarters ended March 31, 2008

  Total Volume
($ billions)
Payments Volume
($ billions)
Payment Transactions (millions) Cash Volume
($ billions)
Cash Transactions (millions) Cards
(millions)
All Visa Credit & Debit
Asia Pacific 901 590 7,347 312 1,701 463
Canada 190 167 1,433 22 37 31
CEMEA 419 64 879 355 2,227 156
LAC 524 167 4,204 357 2,836 312
US 1,975 1,574 28,419 401 2,861 667
Visa Inc. 4,009 2,562 42,282 1,447 9,661 1,629
 
Visa Credit Programs
US 960 821 9,193 139 130 368
Rest of World 1,011 860 10,834 150 518 446
Visa Inc. 1,971 1,682 20,027 289 648 814
 
Visa Debit Programs
US 1,015 752 19,225 262 2,732 299
Rest of World 1,023 128 3,029 896 6,281 515
Visa Inc. 2,038 880 22,255 1,158 9,013 815

* The table above provides information regarding the operational results for the year ended March 31, 2008, for cards carrying the Visa, Visa Electron and Interlink brands. Card counts include PLUS proprietary cards.