According to new figures out from EMVCo, there were a total of 6.1 billion EMV cards in circulation worldwide as of the end of 2016. That represents an increase by about 1.3 billion cards over the last 12 months.
The new data also indicates that 52.4 percent of all card-present transactions globally were handled with EMV tech — a 35.8 percent increase from the same time two years ago in 2015.