UK: contactless mobile payment users 2025

The number of people in the United Kingdom who use smartphones to pay contactless in stores is set to increase by nearly four million between 2020 and 2025. Compared to figures from a different prediction made in 2017, this would mean that NFC payments in the UK would have more than doubled in roughly eight years. The source adds that the number reached in 2025 would equal about 28 percent of all smartphone users in the country.

Number of users of contactless/tap to pay options on their mobile device in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017 and 2020, with estimates for 2018 and 2019 and forecasts for 2021 and 2025 (in millions)

Characteristic	Mobile payment users in millions
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Release date

July 2021

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

July 2021

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The figures have been taken from several publications: The numbers for 2018 and 2019 were originally predicted in October 2018. The number for 2020 was only briefly mentioned in July 2021

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The source adds the following: "A proximity mobile payment is a point-of-sale (POS) transaction made by using a mobile device as a payment method; includes scanning, tapping, swiping or checking in with a mobile devices at the POS to complete transaction; excludes purchases of digital goods on mobile devices, purchases made remotely on mobile devices that are delivered later on and transactions made via tablets."

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