noncash payments continued to gain ground between 2012 and 2015, rising 5.3% annually to 144 billion. The noncash payments, which include debit cards, credit cards and checks, had a value of nearly $178 trillion in 2015, up about 13% since 2012. Debit cards helped lead the way as the number of those payments rose to 69.5 billion in 2015, up 23% from 2012. The value of the debit-card payments rose by a smaller amount, however, reflecting the fact that debit transactions typically are of lesser value than those made on credit cards. The number of credit-card payments reached 33.8 billion in 2015 with a value of $3.16 trillion, representing increases of roughly 25% from 2012. The growth was led by general-purpose cards that can be used everywhere compared with private-label cards that can only be used in specific stores.

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