POS terminals per 100,000 adults by country

Countries reporting

Highest

4,939

Australia

Lowest

2.31

Afghanistan

Median

1,194

Years covered

2011–2015

Data points

405

What the numbers show

POS terminals per 100,000 adults is currently reported for 78 countries. The highest value is 4,939 in Australia; the lowest is 2.31 in Afghanistan.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,194, and the mean is 1,502.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2,140.

POS terminals per 100,000 adults: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
2	Australia	4,939	2015	—	rising
3	Costa Rica	4,788	2015	—	rising
4	Canada	4,323	2015	—	rising
5	Italy	3,778	2015	—	rising
6	Turkey	3,705	2015	—	flat
7	United Kingdom	3,648	2015	—	rising
8	Norway	3,588	2015	—	rising
9	Switzerland	3,550	2015	—	rising
10	Spain	3,506	2015	—	flat
11	Finland	3,348	2015	—	falling
12	Brazil	3,234	2015	—	rising
13	Portugal	3,217	2015	—	rising
14	Denmark	2,962	2015	—	rising
15	Croatia	2,889	2015	—	rising
16	Estonia	2,872	2015	—	rising
17	France	2,719	2015	—	rising
18	Greece	2,369	2015	—	falling
19	Cyprus	2,359	2015	—	falling
20	Israel	2,342	2015	—	rising
21	Netherlands	2,319	2015	—	rising
22	Sweden	2,268	2015	—	falling
23	Montenegro	2,246	2015	—	rising
24	Slovenia	2,161	2015	—	flat
25	China	2,022	2015	—	volatile
26	Trinidad and Tobago	1,955	2015	—	rising
27	Lithuania	1,872	2015	—	rising
28	Latvia	1,845	2015	—	rising
29	United Arab Emirates	1,794	2015	—	rising
30	Austria	1,790	2015	—	rising
31	Uruguay	1,687	2015	—	rising
32	Czechia	1,595	2015	—	rising
33	Bulgaria	1,494	2015	—	rising
34	Poland	1,433	2015	—	rising
35	Cape Verde	1,409	2015	—	rising
36	Argentina	1,334	2015	—	rising
37	Dominican Republic	1,328	2015	—	rising
38	Hungary	1,327	2015	—	volatile
39	Russia	1,243	2015	—	rising
40	Malaysia	1,218	2015	—	rising
41	Slovakia	1,171	2015	—	rising
42	Jamaica	1,111	2015	—	rising
43	Serbia	1,107	2015	—	rising
44	Germany	1,105	2015	—	rising
45	Mexico	1,093	2015	—	rising
47	Saudi Arabia	965.08	2015	—	rising
48	South Africa	940.59	2015	—	rising
49	Azerbaijan	923.75	2015	—	rising
50	Fiji	902.46	2015	—	rising
51	Peru	882.63	2015	—	rising
52	Colombia	868.68	2015	—	rising
53	Romania	778.74	2015	—	rising
54	Georgia	735.83	2015	—	rising
55	Mongolia	697.13	2015	—	rising
56	Thailand	635.8	2015	—	rising
57	Lebanon	609.76	2015	—	flat
58	Kazakhstan	606.1	2015	—	rising
59	Angola	417.12	2015	—	rising
60	Moldova	403.72	2015	—	rising
61	Jordan	388.35	2015	—	rising
62	Vietnam	310.41	2015	—	rising
63	Albania	283.26	2015	—	rising
64	Armenia	270.43	2015	—	rising
65	Sri Lanka	256.36	2015	—	rising
66	Philippines	220.79	2015	—	rising
67	Tunisia	150.2	2015	—	flat
68	Bolivia	149.7	2015	—	rising
69	Mozambique	133.43	2015	—	rising
70	India	120.68	2015	—	rising
71	Egypt	94.41	2015	—	rising
72	Cambodia	90.82	2015	—	rising
73	Morocco	89.02	2015	—	rising
74	Zambia	78.63	2015	—	volatile
75	Pakistan	33.47	2015	—	flat
76	Rwanda	24.95	2015	—	rising
77	Yemen	9.38	2015	—	falling
78	Liberia	5.17	2015	—	volatile
79	Iraq	3.29	2015	—	volatile
80	Afghanistan	2.31	2015	—	rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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About this data

Indicator: POS terminals per 100,000 adults
Source: World Bank
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 81 places, 405 data points, 2011–2015
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026