Statistics

Visa Inc. is the world’s largest payments company, with more than US$3.82 trillion of total volume as of December 31, 2007.

Visa statistics on payment volume by payment type are included below.*

Operational Performance Data
Four quarters ended December 31, 2007

  Total Volume
($ billions)
Payments Volume
($ billions)
Payment Transactions (millions) Cash Volume
($ billions)
Cash Transactions (millions) Cards
(millions)
All Visa Credit & Debit
Asia Pacific 846 556 7,034 289 1,624 446
Canada 179 158 1,404 21 37 31
CEMEA 386 59 827 327 2,120 147
LAC 485 152 3,984 333 2,775 307
US 1,927 1,533 27,612 394 2,877 686
Visa Inc. 3,822 2,458 40,860 1,364 9,433 1,616
 
Visa Credit Programs
US 942 807 9,048 136 129 365
Rest of World 951 808 10,379 143 490 431
Visa Inc. 1,894 1,615 19,427 278 618 796
 
Visa Debit Programs
US 985 726 18,564 259 2,749 321
Rest of World 944 117 2,869 827 6,066 500
Visa Inc. 1,929 843 21,433 1,086 8,815 820

* The table above provides information regarding the operational results for the year ended December 31, 2007, for cards carrying the Visa, Visa Electron and Interlink brands. Card counts include PLUS proprietary cards.