Plastic cards in the UK and how we used them in 2007

There were 165.4 million payment cards in issue – 67.3 million credit cards, 5.7 million charge cards and 71.6 million debit cards, 20.2 million ATM-only cards and 0.5 million cheque guarantee cards.
There are 41.7 million personal debit card holders, representing 84% of the adult population
The number of personal credit and charge cardholders fell to 30.8million, representing 62% of the adult population .
The average number of cards per person was 2.4 credit cards and 1.6 debit cards.
Spending on plastic cards in the UK amounted to £354.2 billion in 2006, which comprised £221 billion on debit cards, and £133.2 billion on credit and charge cards.
Internet card payments have risen nearly four-fold over the last five years, to £34 billion.
There were 4.9 billion debit card purchases in 2007, an increase of 9% on 2006, with an average transaction value of £45.
There were 1.9 billion purchases made on credit and charge cards in the UK, giving an average transaction value of £63.22.

APACS - the UK payments association