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Global retail sales of Pokémon products in 2020, as stated by The Pokémon Company International itself

$5.1bn 2020

ReportedA company statement, relayed by a fan site. Not audited.

Found in one pass only. The research team reads every source twice, independently; this record turned up in one reading but not the other, so treat it as less certain than its grade.

What this is

Global retail sales of Pokémon products in 2020, as stated by The Pokémon Company International itself: $5.1 billion.

How it’s built

  1. Taken from the company’s Licensing Expo 2022 exhibitor text, as reproduced by PocketMonsters.net, a fan site: “Pokémon global retail sales totaled $5.1 billion in 2020.”

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

Matches License Global’s figure for 2020. The original expo page was not seen, and “global” is not defined.

Where it comes from

Licensing Expo 2022 TPCi press text, as reproduced by PocketMonsters.Net PocketMonsters.Net reproducing licensingexpo.com TPCi exhibitor text · 24 May 2022 Open the original ↗

The line in the source

Pokémon global retail sales totaled $5.1 billion in 2020.

Where it’s used