PayPal use by country 2026| ��ƽ��

PayPal usage either for online payments or at POS in various countries worldwide as of 1st quarter of 2026

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Release date

May 2026

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

April 1, 2025, to March 30, 2026

Number of respondents

12,000+ per country

Age group

18-64 years

Special properties

internet users; For this statistic, two sets of metrics are displayed: "Share of respondents who used payment services" and "Share of total respondents"

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The question was phrased by the source as follows: "Which payment services have you used in the past 12 months? (multi-pick)". In all editions before 2025, the source asked two questions - which were discontinued in 2025: "Which online payment services have you used in the past 12 months? (multi-pick)" and "Which of these services have you used in the past 12 months to pay in stores, restaurants or other points of sale with your smartphone? (multi-pick)".

The countries provided are part of the extended questionnaire within ��ƽ��'s Global Consumer Survey, meaning there are no other countries with this same information. More information on the methodology can be found here.

For countries/territories receiving the extended questionnaire, the Global Consumer Survey utilizes a rolling survey system with four survey waves per year: The most recent data set contains the interviews of the last 12 months. This ensures trend stability and a higher number of interviews available for analysis, allowing you to adequately analyze smaller target groups, media, and brands.

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In 2026, PayPal was used more often in Germany, Italy, and Austria than in the United States. This is according to ��ƽ��'s Consumer ��ƽ��. Nearly ** percent of the respondents who used used payment services replied they had used PayPal between April 2025 and March 2026 - which was around ** of the total respondent base. Interestingly, the global user count of PayPal declined throughout 2023 and in the first half of 2024, before a gradual increase throughout 2025.

How many PayPal users are there per country?

PayPal does not share user figures on an individual country basis. Instead, tracking companies try to estimate where payment providers such as PayPal are the biggest. The country-by-country number of merchants who accept PayPal for online payments was the highest in the United States in 2025. Relatively speaking, however, German websites accepted PayPal more frequently than websites from other countries. Roughly one-third of global websites that offer PayPal at check-out were in the United States.

Are wallets bigger than other payment methods available?

Mobile wallets - the digital payments category PayPal belongs to, along with Apple Pay and Google Pay - are anticipated to make up more than **** of all e-commerce transaction value by 2026. Note that payment wallets differ significantly across the world. The market size of mobile wallets in Asia is expected to be nearly *** times larger than that of North America by 2025. Super apps such as WeChat are at the heart of this movement, whereas PayPal is associated with the Western world.