Annual debit card spending in Italy 2000-2022, in local currency and USD
Italy's most used payment method for POS transactions, but this only became so in 2020. Until then, cash money was often preferred for payments.
Italians spent roughly 184 billion euros worth of credit card transactions in 2021, an increase of 25 percent compared to the previous year. This meant a continued growth of the digital payment method in the European country. Debit cards have grown to become