How it’s built
- Reported by PokeGuardian, a Pokémon fan news site, in an article on the year to March 2021, which lists the earlier totals.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
The 30.4bn matches the company's own page, which calls it cards shipped; the article says 'sold'. Its 3.1bn for the year is slightly below the 3.2bn from subtracting company totals.
Where it comes from
3.7 Billion Pokemon Cards Sold in Fiscal Year 2020-2021 PokeGuardian · 4 June 2021 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
Last fiscal year 2019/2020 they sold 3.1 billion cards (as of the end of March 2020)
Related figures
The same measure, other periods