• Around the world, every second of every day, 10,000 people pay for something with a credit card.
• These days, folks in the U.S. are spending $75,000 every second on their credit cards (that’s $2,378,000,000,000 a year! Count the zeroes: that’s trillions).
| U.S. Census Bureau | 2012 Projections |
| Cardholders | 160 million |
| Number of cards | 1.167 billion |
| Credit card purchase volume | 2.378 billion |
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1188.pdf
