What this is
How many Pokémon cards were made over the two years to March 2026 combined: about 20.1–21.2 billion, or 10.1–10.6 billion a year.
How it’s built
- Subtract the company's March 2024 total (64.8bn) from its March 2026 total ('over 85 billion').
- Halve it and compare with the record 11.9bn of the year to March 2024: 10–16% lower on average.
What we assumed
- 'Over 85 billion' is rounded down to the whole billion.The research reads the company's round totals as whole-billion floors, based on how it rounded other figures in the same update.
Sanity check
This is the tightest statement the company's figures support. It does not depend on how the two years split, so it avoids the doubt over each year on its own.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- Two year bn: 20.1 to 21.2
- Avg per year bn: 10.1 to 10.6
- Avg against year to March 2024: -16.2 to -10.2%
- Robust to: how the two years split; needs only the 1bn floor at Mar 2026
- V26 - V24 in (85.0-64.9, 86.0-64.8) = (20.1, 21.2)
- /2 = 10.05-10.6
- 10.05/12.0-1 = -16.2%
- 10.6/11.8-1 = -10.2%
Where it’s used
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