During the first 9 months of 2012, the number of cardholders in Ukraine has risen to 41 million 394 thousand, or by 18%. They hold 65 million 611 thousand cards issued by 143 banks. In this case, 53.1%, or 34 million 821 thousand of them are active (those, by which at least one debit transaction has been carried out for the past three months).
These data are reported by independent association of Ukrainian banks.
"Debit cards dominate in the purses of the Ukrainians - 27 million 888 thousand, or 80% of the total. Each fifth is a credit card (6 million 933 thousand.). And the number of the last from the beginning of the year fell by 15%, while the number of debit ones increased by 5%, "- it says in a statement.
According to the reports, there are 33 million 479 thousand individual cards in Ukraine. This is 96.1% of the total number of active cards. The share of corporate cards is only 3.9%, or 1 million 342 thousand, but since the beginning of the year it has been demonstrating encouraging growth (+77%)
Source: rbc.ua