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Cumulative Pokémon cards produced worldwide to March 2015

21.5 billion cards Cumulative to end FY2014 (Mar 2015)

EstimateA fan site’s figure; graded low pending a primary check.

Found in one pass only. The research team reads every source twice, independently; this record turned up in one reading but not the other, so treat it as less certain than its grade.

What this is

Cumulative Pokémon cards produced worldwide to March 2015: 21.5 billion.

How it’s built

  1. From a cumulative table in an article on PokeGuardian, a Pokémon fan news site.

What we assumed

  • The fan site’s table is taken as accurate.It has not been checked against a primary source.

Sanity check

Counts cards produced, not sold. It fits TV Tokyo’s 14bn sold by mid-2007.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

Pokemon Cards Continue Strong Sales as Total Production Hits 85 Billion

Where it’s used

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