How many Pokémon cards PSA graded in 2023, per Axios

What this is

How many Pokémon cards PSA graded in 2023, per Axios: 6.4m.

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

Conflicts with other sources: a forum relay of PSA's own recap says 4.4m+, and GemRate counts PSA's trading and non-sport cards together at 5.7m for 2023, below 6.4m.

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
• ProfilePSA and other graders
• ProfileCollector and resale market