Quarterly number of contactless payments in the Netherlands 2014-2021
In the fourth quarter of 2021, approximately 1.07 billion NFC payments were made in the Netherlands using either debit cards or mobile phones. NFC payments were introduced in the Netherlands in 2014 and mainly involves contactless payments made at points of sales, with either a debit card or a mobile phone or payments via QR codes. These methods are supported and developed by Dutch banks, such as ING and Rabobank, with larger Fintech-services such as Android Pay, Apple Pay and Pay from Samsung not yet being released in the Netherlands. Despite that, approximately 70 percent of respondents in the Netherlands indicated they never used mobile phone payments before.
