What this is
The total number of Pokémon cards produced worldwide since launch, as stated by The Pokémon Company: more than 43.2 billion by the end of March 2022.
How it’s built
- Read from the 'Pokémon in Figures' page on the company's Japanese corporate site, in an archived copy from June 2022. It reads 'cumulative cards produced: over 43.2 billion'.
What we assumed
- 'Over 43.2 billion' is treated as 43.2 billion.The page states a floor to the nearest 100 million, so the true figure is between 43.2 and 43.3 billion.
Sanity check
That is 9.1bn more than a year earlier, the biggest one-year jump to that point.
Where it comes from
Japanese-language article, 2022 The Pokémon Company, corporate site · 11 June 2022 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
累計製造枚数 432億枚以上 Where it’s used
Related figures
The same measure, other periods