Monthly growth in card spending in the UK 2022

Consumers' card spending in the United Kingdom (UK) slowed down considerably following March 2020, due to the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. According to the most recently reported data, consumer card spending in the UK picked up pace again, growing by 17.7 percent as of March 2022 compared to the pre-pandemic levels in the same month of 2019. In this statistic, in order to give a more accurate comparison, data from March 2021 onwards were provided as comparisons to 2019.

Monthly year-on-year percentage change in consumer card expenditure in the United Kingdom (UK) from November 2015 to March 2022

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Release date

April 2022

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

November 2015 to December 2022*

Supplementary notes

* Figures beginning from March 2021 were comparisons on the corresponding month in 2019.
Data is based on Barclaycard credit card and Barclaycard debit card transactions. The source adds that "Barclaycard sees nearly half of the nation's credit and debit card transactions."

Data for March 2017, May 2019, and June 2019 were not provided by the source.

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