Global Proximity Mobile Payment Users: eMarketer's Estimates for 2016–2021

WHAT’S IN THIS REPORT? This report includes eMarketer’s first-ever forecast for global proximity mobile payment users. The projections, which run through 2021, include breakouts by region and country. eMarketer’s data on global proximity mobile payment users can be found in this report’s accompanying spreadsheet. Consumers across the globe are warming up to proximity mobile payments. In 2018, for the first time, more than one-third (34.9%) of smartphone users ages 14 and older will use a mobile phone to pay for a purchase at a physical point of sale (POS) at least once every six months. China is the global leader in proximity mobile payment adoption, accounting for 61.2% of the worldwide user base in 2018. Though China’s share will fall as the number of users in other parts of the world rises, the country will still make up of the majority (56.0%) of proximity mobile payment users in 2021. Most proximity mobile payment user growth worldwide will be driven by the expansion of the bi