Statistics
Visa Inc. is the world’s largest payments company, with more than US$4.3 trillion of total volume as of December 31, 2008.
Visa volume statistics by payment type are included below.*
Visa volume statistics by payment type are included below.*
Operational Performance Data
Four quarters ended December 31, 2008
| Total Volume ($ billions) |
Payments Volume ($ billions) |
Payment Transactions (millions) | Cash Volume ($ billions) |
Cash Transactions (millions) | Cards (millions) |
|
| All Visa Credit & Debit | ||||||
| Asia Pacific | 988 | 646 | 8,317 | 342 | 2,015 | 501 |
| Canada | 190 | 169 | 1,510 | 21 | 36 | 30 |
| CEMEA | 525 | 77 | 1,077 | 448 | 2,603 | 178 |
| LAC | 600 | 193 | 4,863 | 407 | 3,120 | 340 |
| US | 2,043 | 1,641 | 30,244 | 401 | 2,879 | 668 |
| Visa Inc. | 4,346 | 2,727 | 46,010 | 1,620 | 10,652 | 1,717 |
| Visa Credit Programs | ||||||
| US | 952 | 824 | 9,236 | 128 | 117 | 334 |
| Rest of World | 1,092 | 934 | 12,110 | 158 | 581 | 478 |
| Visa Inc. | 2,044 | 1,757 | 21,345 | 286 | 698 | 813 |
| Visa Debit Programs | ||||||
| US | 1,091 | 818 | 21,008 | 273 | 2,762 | 333 |
| Rest of World | 1,212 | 152 | 3,656 | 1,061 | 7,192 | 571 |
| Visa Inc. | 2,303 | 969 | 24,664 | 1,333 | 9,954 | 905 |
* The table above provides information regarding the operational results for the 12 months ended December 31, 2008, for cards carrying the Visa, Visa Electron and Interlink brands. Card counts include PLUS proprietary cards.