There were 4.26 billion payment cards shipped in 2020 by the manufacturers listed here. That figure included 3.53 billion chip cards and 695.9 million magnetic-stripe-only cards. Another 31.1 million cards used barcodes, scratch-off or other means to initiate transactions but had neither chips nor magstripes. The six largest manufacturers combined shipped 3.07 billion payment cards in 2020, down 10.4% from 2019. Shipments included 2.47 billion chip cards and 585.8 million magstripe cards, with chip cards accounting for 80.45% of the group’s 2020 total. In 2019, chip cards accounted for 78...