21% of all Pokemon Cards Ever Made Were Sold in 2021

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Thought this was an incredibly interesting data point, and also a testament to how quickly Pokemon has ramped up production to deal with scalping/reselling issues. Pokemon sold 9.1 billion cards in FY 2021, up from 3.7 billion cards in FY 2020. For a comparison to the “before times,” FY 2016-2019 saw approximately 1.5-2 billion cards sold per year.

To put this into a bit more perspective, Pokemon produced and sold 21% of all cards ever produced in 2021. That percentage jumps to 26% if you compare the 2021 production to production from 1999-2020. A little over 1/5th of the production of 22 years of the TCG occurred in 2021.

Pretty insane to see such longevity and growth from the hobby. I wish we had more detailed statistics to compare Pokemon now to Pokemon in 1999-2000. Would be very interesting to see which “boom” period was more significant.

More info: www.pokeguardian.com/934991_over-9-billion-pokemon-cards-sold-in-fiscal-year-2021-2022

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That’s an impressive figure, would love to know what the % of total PSA submission stats are alongside.

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Wow inflation also affects Pokémon cards :wink:

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sounds like its following the trend of the US money supply

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No wonder each set now has about 20 secret rares!

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well, it’s also because booster cases are the new blister packs :confused: got about the same odds of pulling anything exciting out of 72 packs as you used to out of 3 :unamused:;.

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