T4: Number of payment cards and terminals
(thousands; end of year)
Year
«  2015  »
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
PART A: Total number of cards
Total number of cards 1nap69,13969,74967,99470,252
Breakdown of 'total number of cards' by function
Cards with a cash functionnap69,13969,74966,31668,553
Cards with a debit function 2nap27,46826,48524,41725,100
Cards with a delayed debit function 3nap41,33243,26443,57745,153
Cards with a credit functionnapnavnavnavnav
Cards with an e-money functionnap717nav00
Partial breakdown of 'total number of cards' by technology
Of which: contactlessnapnavnavnavnav
Of which: magstripenapnavnavnavnav
Partial breakdown of 'total number of cards' by issuer
Of which: by a non-banknapnavnavnavnav
Partial breakdown of 'total number of cards' by ability
 to initiate device-not-present payments
Of which: able to initiate device-not-present paymentsnap69,13969,74967,99470,252
PART B: Total number of terminals
Total number of POS terminalsnap1,3161,1251,2241,381
Partial breakdown of 'total number of POS terminals'
 by terminal type
Of which: EFTPOS terminalsnap1,3161,1251,2241,381
Partial breakdown of 'EFTPOS terminals' by technology
Of which: contactlessnapnavnavnavnav
Total number of ATMsnap56525050
Partial breakdown of 'total number of ATMs' by function
Cash withdrawalnap56525050
Cash depositnapnavnavnavnav
Credit transfernapnavnavnavnav
Partial breakdown of 'total number of ATMs' by technology
Of which: contactlessnapnavnavnavnav
 1 Total number of cards irrespective of the number of functions on the card. 2 Prepaid cards are included. Until Q1 2018 data on payment card by function (i.e credit and debit function) is estimated based on information provided by the Spanish card payment schemes. Since then the data is reported by the PSPs adhered to the Spanish card payment schemes, according to the EU Regulation 2015/751 3 Credit cards are included. It is not possible to differentiate between delayed debit and credit cards. However, it is known that the bulk of the payments are made with delayed debit cards.