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Proximity Mobile Payment Users
Overall
Source: EMARKETER Forecast, February 2025 - January 2026
Note: ages 14+; mobile phone users who make a proximity mobile payment transaction via mobile phone at least once per month
Additional Note: Proximity mobile payments are also known as point-of-sale (POS) mobile wallet payments and POS mobile contactless payments. This type of payment entails scanning, tapping, or swiping a mobile phone at the POS to complete a transaction and includes use of public transportation payment wallets. Examples include Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Wallet, the Starbucks mobile app, and the Los Angeles Metro's mobility wallet. Purchases of digital goods on mobile phones and transactions made via tablets are excluded. (1) Other Asia-Pacific includes American Samoa, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, North Korea, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna; (2) Other Central & Eastern Europe includes Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine; (3) Other Latin America includes Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint-Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (US); (4) Other Western Europe includes Andorra, Belgium, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Portugal, San Marino.
Methodology: Estimates are based on the analysis of survey and web traffic data from research firms, primary research, interviews, information from major mobile payment players, historical consumer adoption and buying trends, payment adoption trends, retail spending trends, demographic and socioeconomic factors, and macroeconomic conditions.