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Number of transactions involving contactless or NFC technology in France from 2014 to 2023

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Release date

March 2025

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Region

France

Survey time period

2014 to 2023

Age group

15 years and older

Special properties

No figures were provided from before 2014; The source adds that the payments include "card and e-money payments", but does not specify whether this includes smartphones or wearables

Supplementary notes

The figures have been taken from several publications. The base figures come , which gathered data from the national central bank.

The per capita figures have been calculated by ��ƽ��, based on

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The number of contactless payments in France increased by more than ** percent between 2020 and 2021, as the average person did more than *** transactions. Contactless, sometimes referred to as NFC or mobile proximity payments, are payments performed with either debit cards or mobile devices such as phones or wearables through near field communication (NFC) technology. Google Pay and Apple Pay are the most well-known applications of this. Nevertheless, contactless payments are relatively undocumented. This is due to fintechs - the main organizations who offer this payment option - often do not share user figures, but also domestic payment infrastructure not being able to track such payments. Within Europe, France, the Netherlands, the UK, Poland, Turkey, Switzerland, and Russia are the only known countries who offer somewhat of an insight in this field. Notable for France is that contactless payments per capita were significantly higher than credit card payments per capita in the country.