Annual payment card transaction number at POS terminals in Greece 2000-2022
heavily, going from 95.3 percent of all payments in 2015 to 75.2 percent of all payments in 2019.
The number point of sale (POS) transactions in Greece rose drastically in the period between 2012 and 2020. In 2012, the number of point of sale transactions amounted to approximately 57 million. By 2020 the number of POS transactions had increased to 952.6 million. After 2015, the amount of cash use in Greece started to drop