How it’s built
- Take each total from an archived or live copy of the company's figures page where one exists.
- For March 2018, March 2019 and September 2019, where no copy survives, use fan-site compilations of the company's figures.
What we assumed
- Fan-site figures fill the 2018–2019 gap.No archived company page exists for those dates; two fan sites agree on the figures.
- Each total is a floor ('over'), to 0.1bn until 2024 and rounder after.The company writes each as 'over' a figure; the 2025 and 2026 totals are round numbers.
Sanity check
Totals to March 2020 count cards shipped; from March 2021 cards produced. Yearly figures taken across that change mix two measures.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- FiledMissing captures, 2018-2019
- FiledCoverage gap 2017 2020, 28 November 2017 -> 15 September 2020 captures
- EstimateHow precisely to read The Pokémon Company's round card totals of 'over 75 billion' (2025) and 'over 85 billion' (2026)
Show the working
- Selection rule: A-tier TPC capture where one exists for the as-of
- B press retrospective only for Mar 2018, Mar 2019, Sep 2019 (no TPC capture, /)
- Values are TPC-st