# 10.2 Billion Cards Printed April 2024 - end of March 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** News & Links\ **Tags:** supply\ **Created:** [May 23, 2025, 6:28am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221 "2025-05-23T06:28:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![koala](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/koala/32/1805_2.png) [@koala](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/koala)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 6:28am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/1 "2025-05-23T06:28:04Z")
End of March 2025: 75 billion cards (+10.2 billion cards) End of March 2024: 64.8 billion cards (+11.9 billion cards) End of March 2023: 52.9 billion cards (+9.7 billion cards) End of March 2022: 43.2 billion cards (+9.1 billion cards) End of March 2021: 34.1 billion cards (+3.7 billion cards) End of March 2020: 30.4 billion cards (+1.6 billion cards) > **[Pokémon in Figures | The Pokémon Company](https://corporate.pokemon.co.jp/en/aboutus/figures/)** > > The Pokémon Company Website. Our mission statement is to enrich both the real world and the virtual world with the Pokémon characters. ![1](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/1/5/15a8ba2972f3b8667fa52fe332eecfa6cca34d53.png) [https://www.pokebeach.com/2025/05/pokemon-tcg-printed-10-2-billion-cards-in-2024-lower-than-the-previous-year](https://www.pokebeach.com/2025/05/pokemon-tcg-printed-10-2-billion-cards-in-2024-lower-than-the-previous-year) ---
**Author:** ![handschoen](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/handschoen/32/149125_2.png) [@handschoen](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/handschoen)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 7:57am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/2 "2025-05-23T07:57:06Z")
The amount of cards printed is insane. Some quick fun facts: In weight the 10.2 billion cards are about 18,360 tons in total, equivalent to 3,672 elephants (this is the US measurement scale right?). It took around 440,640 trees to print these cards. Enjoy your energy cards 😛 ! ---
**Author:** ![cpbog1](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/cpbog1/32/335_2.png) [@cpbog1](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/cpbog1)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 8:11am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/4 "2025-05-23T08:11:27Z")
Printers be brrrr’ing. It’s wild that many of us witnessed a noticeable dip in demand last year, but the total printed cards globally still exceeded 2022-2023’s print run by half a billion cards. Thanks China + other newly added regions/countries. cpbog1 ---
**Author:** ![turtlemode](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/turtlemode/32/156855_2.png) [@turtlemode](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/turtlemode)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 10:02am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/5 "2025-05-23T10:02:18Z")
Crazy. I wonder what the numbers will look like next year! I made a quick chart to visualize the data since 2017: ![PokemonCardProduction_2025](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/b/5/b5987855d3c9630c187d1a2bdf64baa1e5142231.png) ---
**Author:** ![lyleberr](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/lyleberr/32/156919_2.png) [@lyleberr](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/lyleberr)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/7 "2025-05-23T10:55:53Z")
Weird there was a dip from last year ---
**Author:** ![eeveeteam](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/eeveeteam/32/2219_2.png) [@eeveeteam](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/eeveeteam)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 11:03am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/9 "2025-05-23T11:03:29Z")
The promised additional printing wasnt until late 2024/early 2025. I assume printing capacity is back to 100% now. I am guessing next fiscal year will provide a new record of cards printed ---
**Author:** ![traineramy](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/traineramy/32/132565_2.png) [@traineramy](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/traineramy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 11:18am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/10 "2025-05-23T11:18:03Z")
Crazy part is that 90% of that volume came just from akabane ---
**Author:** ![smpratte](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/smpratte/32/79511_2.png) [@smpratte](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/smpratte)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/11 "2025-05-23T14:43:23Z")
And it’s still not enough! ---
**Author:** ![trainerjack](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/trainerjack/32/1795_2.png) [@trainerjack](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/trainerjack)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/12 "2025-05-23T14:48:18Z")
If the current demand is any indicator, along with the 30th anniversary next year, I can only see this rising. ---
**Author:** ![Dyl](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/dyl/32/234623_2.png) [@Dyl](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Dyl)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/13 "2025-05-24T02:59:55Z")
Of the 75.0 billion cards printed, at least 74.9 billion are worthless. I wonder what proportion are energies and code cards as well. ---
**Author:** ![thsigma](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/thsigma/32/2419_2.png) [@thsigma](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/thsigma)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 3:05am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/14 "2025-05-24T03:05:01Z")
Its the scalpers! ---
**Author:** ![c0ll3ct0r](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/c0ll3ct0r/32/26306_2.png) [@c0ll3ct0r](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/c0ll3ct0r)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 3:05am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/15 "2025-05-24T03:05:51Z")
1 extra billion = 1 extra minute in stock ---
**Author:** ![koala](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/koala/32/1805_2.png) [@koala](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/koala)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/16 "2025-05-24T03:14:07Z")
For every code card and energy card in a booster pack, there are 10 set cards. For every 45 energy cards in an Elite Trainer Box there are 9-11 booster packs, and not everyone buys an Elite Trainer Box if it doesn’t offer the most packs (booster boxes, etc). Pre-constructed starter decks in JP are 60 cards including 18-19 energy cards so it’s also more reprint/new cards per deck, and not everyone buys decks (booster boxes, etc). The majority of cards printed are directly from sets ---
**Author:** ![bk2021](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/bk2021/32/244_2.png) [@bk2021](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/bk2021)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/17 "2025-05-24T03:17:45Z")
I guess the big question is, can TPCi move to TPC format seamlessly? It really is a lot of waste. ---
**Author:** ![assassin5757](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/assassin5757/32/1234_2.png) [@assassin5757](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/assassin5757)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/10-2-billion-cards-printed-april-2024-end-of-march-2025/56221/19 "2025-05-24T10:01:27Z")
I’m not surprised. I know it’s not a 1:1 but I feel like demand has certainly 6x (1.6-\>10.2) to justify the increase, especially with the push into China and SEA.