Pokémon cards graded in 2025 as a share of cards printed in the year to March 2026

What this is

Pokémon cards graded in 2025 as a share of cards printed in the year to March 2026: about 0.16% (range 0.15–0.18%), or roughly 1 in 620.

How it’s built

1. Divided all grading companies’ 2025 Pokémon count (16.1m, from GemRate) by an estimated print of 9–11bn cards, point 10bn.

What we assumed

• Print for the year is 9–11bn cards, point 10bn.It is derived from The Pokémon Company's rounded cumulative totals, so it carries about ±1bn error.
• A calendar year of grading is compared with an April–March print year.The periods overlap by nine months; no better-matched data exist.
• “More than 16.1m” is used as 16.1m.It is the only figure given.

Sanity check

Graded cards include old cards, so the share of current print that gets graded is lower still. This measures copies, not value.

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:

• ReportedHow many Pokémon cards all major grading companies graded in 202516.1m
• EstimateHow many Pokémon cards were made in the year to March 20269.0–11.0bn

Where it’s used

• Deep dive · Trading cardsGrading: most of the graders’ work, a sliver of the print