NYSE: MAMastercard Inc Statistics & Facts
Key Mastercard facts
- Founded
- 1966
- Headquarters
- Purchase, New York
- Founders
- Wells Fargo, Crocker National Bank, First Interstate Bancorp, Bank of California
- IPO Date
- 2006-05-25
Mastercard Growth Stats
Mastercard Debit Cards
How many Mastercard debit card holders are there in the world?
There are over 1.8 billion Mastercard debit cards in circulation worldwide. [1]
Date: Jan 31, 2024
Mastercard Debit Cards by Region
How many Mastercard debit cards are in the United States?
There are more than 330 million Mastercard debit cards in the U.S. [1]
Date: Jan 31, 2024
Mastercard Credit Cards
How many Mastercard credit cards are there in the world?
There are 1.12 billion Mastercard credit cards in the world. [1]
Date: Jan 31, 2024
Mastercard Credit Cards by Region
How many Mastercard credit cards are there in the U.S.?
325 million of the 1.12 billion active Mastercard credit cards are in the US. [1]
Date: Jan 31, 2024
Mastercard Purchase transactions
How many Mastercard transactions are made in a year?
170 billion transactions were made using Mastercard to purchase goods and services in 2023. [1]
Date: Jan 31, 2024
Mastercard Gross Dollar Volume (GDV)
How much money does Mastercard handle?
Over $9 trillion in transactions went through Mastercard in 2023. [1]
Date: Jan 31, 2024
Mastercard GDV by Region
Mastercard statistics breaking down the quarterly gross dollar value (GDV) by region.
$2.837 trillion of the $9 trillion in transactions Mastercard handled in 2023 came from the US. [1]
Date: Jan 31, 2024
Mastercard GDV by Card Type
Breaking down Mastercard's GDV into debit and credit categories.
$4.737 trillion of the $9 trillion in transactions Mastercard handled in 2023 used debit cards. [1]
Date: Jan 31, 2024
Mastercard Revenue Breakdown
Mastercard Revenue by Region
Mastercard stats breaking down the company's annual revenue by region.
$8.359 billion of Mastercard's $25.098 billion in 2023 revenue came from North America. [4]
Date: Feb 13, 2024
Mastercard Revenue by Segment
How does Mastercard make money?
$15.824 billion of Mastercard's $25.098 billion in 2023 revenue came from its payment network. [4]
Date: Feb 13, 2024
Mastercard Expense Statistics
Mastercard Costs and Expenses
How much does Mastercard spend on operations?
Mastercard's operating expenses in 2023 amounted to $11.09 billion, up from $9.973 billion in 2022. [4]
Date: Feb 13, 2024
Mastercard Expenses by Type
Mastercard statistics breaking down the company's annual costs and expenses by type.
Source:Mastercard
General and administrative
$8.93B
Advertising and marketing
$825.00M
Provision for litigation
$799.00M
Depreciation and amortization
$539.00M
Mastercard spent $825 million on advertising in 2023, up from $789 million in 2022. [4]
Date: Feb 13, 2023
Mastercard Employee Statistics
Mastercard Employees
How many employees does Mastercard have?
33,400 people were employed by Mastercard at the end of 2023, up from 29,900 in 2022. [4]
Date: Feb 13, 2024
Mastercard Employees by Location
How many people work at Mastercard in the U.S.?
33% or about 11,000 of Mastercard's 33,400 employees are based in the US. [4]
Date: Feb 13, 2024
Mastercard Employees by Race/Ethnicity
How diverse is Mastercard?
Mastercard Miscellaneous Stats and Facts
Mastercard was originally known as the Interbank Card Association (ICA) until the late 1970s. [6]
Last Accessed: Feb 4, 2021
Mastercard introduced Maestro, the first online point-of-sale debit service, in 1991. [6]
Last Accessed: Feb 4, 2021
Mastercard acquired payments platform Nets for $3.19 billion in 2019. [7]
Date: Aug 6, 2019
Mastercard acquired fintech company Vocalink for $920 million in 2017. [8]
Date: Aug 6, 2019
Mastercard acquired real-time financial data aggregate and insights company Finicity for $825 million in 2020. [9]
Date: Jun 23, 2020
Mastercard acquired identity verification company Ekata for $850 million in 2021. [10]
Date: Apr 19, 2021
Sources
1.
Mastercard Q4 2023 Report
https://s25.q4cdn.com/479285134/files/doc_financials/2023/q4/4Q23-Mastercard-Earnings-Release.pdfDate: Jan 31, 2024
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Visa FY 2023 Annual Report
https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001403161/849d0b35-b550-4d4a-95e3-611146a657f2.pdfDate: Nov 15, 2023
4.
Mastercard 2023 Annual Report
https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001141391/1a67e97e-b966-461c-b71f-893129295992.pdfDate: Feb 13, 2024
5.
Mastercard
https://www.mastercard.com/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/na/global-site/documents/mastercard-employee-demographics-chart-historical-data-june2023.pdfLast Accessed: Apr 13, 2024
6.
Mastercard
https://brand.mastercard.com/brandcenter/more-about-our-brands/brand-history.htmlLast Accessed: Feb 4, 2021
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The Motley Fool
https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/08/06/mastercard-credits-key-acquisitions-for-recent-win.aspxDate: Aug 6, 2019
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Mastercard
https://www.mastercard.com/news/press/2021/april/mastercard-to-acquire-ekata-to-advance-digital-identity-efforts/Date: Apr 19, 2021
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