Annual number of debit card transactions in Canada 2012-2022, per capita
Both in absolute and relative figures, the use of debit cards in Canada continued to grow in the first year of COVID-19. The per capita use of debit cards, for example, is estimated to have reached a figure of nearly 164 transactions per person in 2021. Debit cards remained a popular in-store payment method in Canada since the coronavirus pandemic, but was not as popular as credit cards.
