There were 22.11 billion credit, debit, and prepaid cards in circulation worldwide on December 31, 2018. This included 13.68 billion Visa, UnionPay, Mastercard, Maestro, JCB, Discover/Diners Club, and American Express cards—the global brand general purpose cards—and 7.45 billion cards with domestic-only general purpose brands in over 60 countries. The largest domestic-only brands in number of cards in circulation were RuPay and Elo. Other brands included Mir, Troy, BC Card, Interac, eftpos, Cartes Bancaires, and girocard. Added to the global and domestic-only brands were another 6.98 billi...