ASTANA, Kazakhstan, November 13. There are 72.6 million payment cards in circulation in Kazakhstan as of October 1, 2023, Trend reports.
Data from Kazakhstan's National Bank shows that the most common are debit cards, their share is 80.6 percent, the share of credit cards is 16.7 percent.
The share of debit cards with a credit limit and prepaid cards accounted for 2.7 percent.
At the same time, the number of cards used as of October 1, 2023, amounted to 37.507 million, compared to 31.732 million as of October 1, 2022.
Eighteen banks and Kazpost JSC were issuing payment cards. These organizations issue and distribute cards of Visa International, MasterCard Worldwide, UnionPay International, American Express International and Diners Club International.
In addition, banks in Kazakhstan issue payment cards of local systems: Citibank Kazakhstan - Citibank Kazakhstan JSC and Kaspi.kz payment card system - Kaspi Bank JSC.
In September 2023, the volume of transactions using payment cards of Kazakh issuers amounted to 14.4 trillion tenge (about $30.8 billion), the number of transactions was 1.02 billion.
Payment cardholders carried out 20 million transactions to withdraw cash in the amount of 1.9 trillion tenge.
Kazakhstan had 62.6 million payment cards in circulation as of October 1, 2022.