Annual number of debit card transactions in Bulgaria 2001-2021, per capita
four in five payments in 2019 (81.1 percent).
Over the time between 2012 and 2020, the number of payments with a card with a debit function in Bulgaria steadily increased. In 2012, the number of payments amounted to approximately 23.9 million. By 2020, this had risen to 185.6 million payments. However, at the same time, cash payments are still important in Bulgaria, amounting to around