Contactless payments in the United Kingdom - statistics & facts
The United Kingdom's (UK) acceptance and willingness to use contactless payments may have had a slow beginning, but now there seems to be no stopping this train. The UK's ability to embrace the relatively new payment method is predicted to skyrocket over the coming years, with the average monthly number of contactless payments from adults estimated to rise from two in 2015 to fourteen by 2025. In April 2017, there were over 416 million contactless transactions using debit and credit cards alone, the value of these transactions reaching over 3.9 billion British pounds.
