
Annual number of credit card transactions in the UK 2012-2022, per capita
the same figure for debit cards, the recorded credit payments in 2020 were lower than in the years leading up to COVID-19. This coincides with a trend in the UK of paying off credit card debt during lockdown.
The number of times a person in the United Kingdom used a credit card for payments declined by roughly 20 percent in 2020 but nearly recovered by 2021. Unlike