How it’s built
- The Pokémon Company publishes only running totals each March. Each year's figure is this March's total minus last March's.
- Because each total is a floor to the nearest 100 million, each yearly figure could be up to 0.1bn either way.
What we assumed
- Shipped and produced totals are joined into one series.Totals up to March 2020 count cards shipped; from March 2021 they count cards produced. The year to March 2021 mixes the two, so treat it with care.
- Totals for March 2018 and 2019 come from a fan site's later compilation.PokeGuardian credits the company's own page, and a German fan site agrees on 2019; no archived company copy was found.
Sanity check
The company never states an annual figure on any captured page, so every number here is a subtraction. The jump from 3.7bn to 9.1bn in the year to March 2022 is real, not a rounding effect.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- FiledPer-language or per-region split of cards: ABSENT, 2015-2026
- FiledRegional or per language split found, 2015-2026 captures
Show the working
- 25.7-23.6=2.1
- 27.2-25.7=1.5
- 30.4-27.2=3.2
- 34.1-30.4=3.7
- 43.2-34.1=9.1
- 52.9-43.2=9.7
- 64.8-52.9=11.9
- Both ends are 1億 floors (true value in [x, x+0.1)), so each differ
Where it’s used
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