Credit card ownership, adults
Percentage of respondents aged 15 and over who report having a credit card. Measures ownership, not whether the card was used or has an outstanding balance.
Global Findex survey estimates for people aged 15 and over, or the named subgroup. Percentages use all respondents in that population, not only savers, borrowers or account owners. Only published survey years are stored; no values are interpolated or carried forward. The 2025 edition reports 2024 fieldwork. Some earlier-wave surveys were conducted in 2022; the publisher year labels are retained. In 2024, account and debit-card ownership were asked more widely than other financial-use questions, so available years vary by measure and economy. Survey coverage and questions can change between waves.
Key facts
- Credit card ownership, adults in the United States was 66.7% in 2021, according to the World Bank.
- Canada had the highest credit card ownership, adults of 144 countries in 2017, at 82.58%, and Turkmenistan the lowest, at 0%. Source: the World Bank.
- Published for 161 places, with figures from 2011 to 2024.
Rankings
Countries by credit card ownership, adults, 2017
Places with data
Countries
- India
- China
- United States
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- Bangladesh
- Russia
- Ethiopia
- South Africa
- Moldova
- United Arab Emirates
- Montenegro
- Panama
- Afghanistan
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