What this is
How precisely to read The Pokémon Company's round card totals of 'over 75 billion' (2025) and 'over 85 billion' (2026): the research judges them rounded down to the whole billion.
How it’s built
- The seven earlier totals were all given to 0.1bn and none was round. Two round totals in a row would be a 1-in-2,500 chance at that precision.
- In the same 2025 update the company rounded other counts down to the nearest ten (93 to 'over 90'), and the English page dropped its decimal.
What we assumed
- One rounding rule applies across the whole page.The other counters changed to tens-floors in the same update, which is the best available evidence, but the card counter's own rule is never stated.
Sanity check
A coarser reading (to 5 billion) is possible but has no match elsewhere on the page. The choice matters: it sets the ±1bn uncertainty on each recent year's card output.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- Judgement: 10億 (1bn) floor
- Confidence in judgement: C
- Seven consecutive pre-2025 values are non-round at 1億 (215, 236, 304, 341, 432, 529, 648)
- In the Mar-2025 update TPC turned exact counters into floors to the tens digit …
Where it’s used
Related figures
Built from this one
- ReportedThe running total of Pokémon cards since 1996 as stated by The Pokémon Company at each March from 2015 to 2026, from 21.5bn to 85bn, with what each figure measures
- ReportedWorld card production per print year around rotations, year to March 2022+ basis, print year to March 2022-print year to March 2026