What this is
The total number of Pokémon cards produced worldwide since launch, as stated by The Pokémon Company: more than 52.9 billion by the end of March 2023.
How it’s built
- Read from the 'Pokémon in Figures' page on the company's Japanese corporate site, in an archived copy from June 2023. It reads 'cumulative cards produced: over 52.9 billion'.
What we assumed
- 'Over 52.9 billion' is treated as 52.9 billion.The page states a floor to the nearest 100 million, so the true figure is between 52.9 and 53.0 billion.
Sanity check
That is 9.7bn more than a year earlier, consistent with the higher run-rate that began in 2021.
Where it comes from
Japanese-language article, 2023 The Pokémon Company, corporate site · 15 June 2023 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
累計製造枚数 529億枚以上 Where it’s used
Related figures
The same measure, other periods