The total number of Pokémon cards since launch as of the end of March 2019

What this is

The total number of Pokémon cards since launch as of the end of March 2019: more than 27.2 billion.

How it’s built

1. Reported by PokeGuardian, a Pokémon fan news site, in a 2022 compilation of yearly totals that credits The Pokémon Company's corporate figures page.

What we assumed

• The fan site copied the company's figure correctly.No archived company copy was found, but a German fan site, PokeZentrum, gives the same 27.2 billion for March 2019.

Sanity check

Only 1.5bn above March 2018 (25.7bn), the slowest year in the series, and below the company's 30.4bn for March 2020.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

2018/2019 - 27.2 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2019)

Where it’s used

• Deep dive · Trading cardsPrinting: one lifetime total, changed twice
• Chart · Printing: one lifetime total, changed twiceThe card total switched from cards shipped to cards made in 2021, and lost its decimal in 2025

Related figures

The same measure, other periods

• ReportedAs of March 202685,000,000,000 cards (over)
• ReportedAs of March 2026 (30th-anniversary year)85,000,000,000 cards (over)
• ReportedYear to March 2026 (as of 31 March 2026)85,000,000,000 cards (over)
• ReportedYear to March 2026 (as of end March 2026)85,000,000,000 cards (over)
• ReportedYear to March 2025 (as of 31 March 2025)75,000,000,000 cards (over)
• ReportedYear to March 2024 (as of 31 March 2024)64,800,000,000 cards (over)