Annual check (cheque) transactions in the EU-27 as a whole 2000-2022
The total amount of check payments made in the European Union from 2010 to 2022 has seen a continuous decline. Over 1.2 billion checks were written out across the EU in 2022 compared to approximately 1.3 billion the prior year. In particular, France wrote out checks; they accounted for over half of all 2019 checks written in that year.