What this is
Pokémon's share of the cards graded by PSA: 17% in 2018 and 43% in 2023.
How it’s built
- From PSA's own data, as published by the news site Axios in June 2024.
What we assumed
- Shares of PSA's card count across all games and sports.PSA grades sports and other trading cards too; this is Pokémon's part.
Sanity check
43% of PSA's 13.5m cards is 5.8m, more than PSA's own year-end recap (over 4.4m), so PSA's figures for 2023 do not agree; the chart shows the spread rather than averaging.
The values
- 2018: 17
- 2023: 43
Where it comes from
The new collecting frontier: Pokémon trading card grading surges Axios (data: PSA) · 28 June 2024 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
43% of the cards it graded in 2023 were Pokémon, up from 17% in 2018