Pokemon Cards Continue Strong Sales as Total Production Hits 85 Billion

Pokemon cards continue to perform strongly worldwide.

The Pokemon Company has released their worldwide Trading Card Game figures for fiscal year 2025/2026 (as of March 31, 2026), revealing that roughly 10 billion Pokemon cards were produced during the fiscal year, bringing the lifetime total to over 85 billion cards.

It appears that production remained at roughly the same level as the previous fiscal year. The previous yearly increase was listed at 10.2 billion cards, though the company appears to round these figures.

With these numbers, the number of card production has increased by 13.33%, from 75 billion to 85 billion.

More than 1 in every 9 Pokemon cards ever produced was made during fiscal year 2025/2026 (roughly 11.76%).

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TCG production figures from previous fiscal years:

• 2025/2026 - 85 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2026)
• 2024/2025 - 75 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2025)
• 2023/2024 - 64.9 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2024)
• 2022/2023 - 52.9 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2023)
• 2021/2022 - 43.2 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2022)
• 2020/2021 - 34.1 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2021)
• 2019/2020 - 30.4 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2020)
• 2019 - 28.8 billion cards - (as of the end of September 2019)
• 2018/2019 - 27.2 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2019)
• 2017/2018 - 25.7 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2018)
• 2016/2017 - 23.6 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2017)
• 2015/2016 seems not to be present
• 2014/2015 - 21.5 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2015)