Visa, Mastercard penetration Latin America 2022

In 2022, Visa still had the majority of all general purpose card payments within the Latin America region - although its market share remained relatively unchanged. Mastercard followed, accounting for about 40 percent of the purchase volume in the region that year. This is somewhat of a decline of its position as between 2018 and 2019 MasterCard's market share increased in favor of that of American Express. In 2022, Brazil was the Latin American country with the highest number of credit cards.

Market share of Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club as general purpose card brands in Latin America from 2009 to 2022, based on number of transactions

Characteristic	Visa	Mastercard	American Express	Diners/Discover
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Release date

April 2023

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Region

LAC

Survey time period

2009 to 2022

Special properties

figures include international credit, debit, and prepaid cards. Note that domestic card brands are not included

Supplementary notes

Percentage points exceeding 100 percent and missing percentage points to 100 percent are probably due to rounding.

The figures have been taken from several publications. The source sometimes rounded figures, and sometimes did not.

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