How many Pokémon cards PSA graded in 2021

What this is

How many Pokémon cards PSA graded in 2021: 1.4m.

How it’s built

1. Read from an Axios chart caption using PSA data: “1.4 million in 2021 rose to 6.4 million in 2023.”

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

The same caption gives 6.4m for 2023, a figure other sources contradict, which weakens confidence in the series, though not necessarily in this year.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

1.4 million in 2021 rose to 6.4 million in 2023

Where it’s used

• Deep dive · Trading cardsGrading: most of the graders’ work, a sliver of the print
• Chart · Grading: most of the graders’ work, a sliver of the printPSA now grades roughly seven times as many Pokémon cards a year as in 2021
• ProfilePSA and other graders
• ProfileCollector and resale market