Number of Mastercard cards in Kyrgyzstan drops y-o-y

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, November 28. The number of Mastercard payment cards in Kyrgyzstan has amounted to 52,573 (0.83 percent of the total number of cards in circulation) as of September 30, 2023, Trend reports.

Data from the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan specify a 13 percent drop compared to the same date in 2022, when there were 60,932 cards (1.3 percent of the total). However, there was a tiny gain when compared to the figure at the end of June 2023 (51,794 cards, or 0.85 percent of the total).

The lion's share of these cards were in use in Bishkek, totaling 29,880 cards (48.8 percent of the total), followed by the Chuy area with 6,568 cards (7.5 percent).

The following is a breakdown of the number of Mastercard cards in circulation by region as of the end of September 2023:

As of September 30, 2023, the total number of bank cards in circulation in Kyrgyzstan made up 6,344,100, a 36.1 percent increase over the same period last year.