cbk ke.cbk.payment-cards.monthly monthly

ATMs, Payment Cards and POS Machines.

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COVERAGE 2009-07 - present
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FREQUENCY monthly
PIPELINE automated
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Kenya's card payment infrastructure month by month from July 2009, published by the Central Bank of Kenya: ATMs and POS machines in service, and cards in issue by type. Two series are zero for reasons worth knowing, and both are published as they stand rather than dropped. Charge cards were reported until February 2023 and are zero in every month since, so that series has ended. ATM cards is zero in all published months, meaning the Central Bank has never populated that column despite naming it in the table's title. Total cards is the Central Bank's own published figure and is carried as published rather than recomputed from the card columns.

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PAYMENT CARDS

Kenya's card count peaked at 17.7 million in January 2019 and has since fallen to 13.3 million, as debit cards shed 5.5 million while prepaid cards climbed to a record 2.2 million.

Cards in issue by type, ATMs and POS machines · monthly, 2009 to 2026

SOURCE: Central Bank of Kenya · ATMs, Payment Cards and POS Machines (monthly) · Updated 2026-08-15
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imibare contributors. (2026). ATMs, Payment Cards and POS Machines [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-15. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.cbk.payment-cards.monthly