BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 12. Total number of non-cash payments in the euro area in first half of 2023 increased by 10.1 percent year on year, Trend reports.
The European Central Bank data showed that this figure increased to 67.0 billion.
Besides, the total value of the non-cash payments declined by 4.5 percent to 111.4 trillion euros.
At the end of the first half of 2023, the number of cards with a payment function increased by 4.7 percent to 669.5 million compared to the same period in 2022.
With a total euro area population of around 350 million, this averaged 1.9 payment cards per euro area inhabitant.
Besides, in the reporting period, the total number of automated teller machines (ATMs) in the euro area decreased by 3.5 percent to 260,495 compared with the number at the end of the first half of 2022.
Meanwhile, the total number of point-of-sale (POS) terminals increased by 13.3 percent to 19.9 million compared with the number at the end of the first half of 2022.
