Here are a few of the most interesting Visa statistics and facts I was able to dig up. As always, be sure to check back in the future as I will be updating this post as new and updated stats become available.
Please note that some of these numbers are easier to find than others. A few of these Visa stats come from their own reports, but some are based on news reports and not official company tallies. No information contained on DMR should be relied upon to make investment decisions. Basically, this is the best I can find and I don’t guarantee anything to be 100%
Visa Facts
- Visa Website: usa.visa.com
- Year Visa was Founded: 1958 (as BankAmericard)
- Visa Founder: Dee Hook
- Visa Headquarters: Foster City, CA
- Visa CEO: Alfred Kelly
Visa Statistics
Number of Visa employees:
Last updated 9/14/18
Average amount of transactions Visa process daily:
Last updated 5/25/19
Number of countries and territories Visa has customers in:
Last updated 9/14/18
Number of Visa cards in use (by year):
- 2018: 3.3 billion cards
- 2017: 3.2 billion cards
- 2016: 2.5 billion cards
Average number of transactions processed annually through VisaNet:
Last updated 9/14/18
Visa total volume:
- 2018: $11.2 trillion
- 2017: $10.3 trillion
- 2016: $8.1 trillion
- 2015: $7.3 trillion
- 2014: $7.1 trillion
- 2013: $6.7 trillion
- 2012: $6.2 trillion
Total Visa transactions:
- 2018: 124.3 billion
- 2017: 11.2 billion
- 2016: 83.2 billion
- 2015: 70.9 billion
- 2014: 64.9 billion
- 2013: 58.4 billion
- 2012: 53.3 billion
Annual Visa revenue:
- 2018: $20.609 billion
- 2017: $18.358 billion
- 2016: $15.082 billion
- 2015: $13.880 billion
- 2014: $12.702 billion
- 2013: $11.778 billion
- 2012: $10.421 billion
- 2011: $9.188 billion
- 2010: $8.065 billion
Annual Visa net income:
- 2018: $10.301 billion
- 2017: $6.699 billion
- 2016: $5.991 billion
- 2015: $6.328 billion
- 2014: $5.438 billion
- 2013: $4.980 billion
- 2012: $2.144 billion
- 2011: $3.650 billion
- 2010: $2.966 billion