Report: Contactless Payments Value to Hit $6 Trillion by 2024

Global contactless transaction value will reach close to $6 trillion by 2024, an increase of $4 trillion from 2020, a new report from Juniper Research forecasts.

The report, “Contactless Payments: Market Status, Vendor Analysis & Market Forecasts 2020-2024,” attributes this increase primarily to increasing use of contactless cards in the United States as well as improvements to China’s contactless point-of-sale infrastructure. Further, the report argues, increased share from mobile wallets from Google, Samsung and especially Apple Pay will account for higher value payments among contactless form factors.

The United States is set to account for $1.5 trillion in contactless transaction value by 2024, a significant growth from its current value of $178 billion in 2020. It also predicted that Apple Pay will account for 52 percent of OEM mobile wallet transaction values by 2024, up nine percent from 2020 due largely to growth in key regions including China and Europe.

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