Figures 2008

This Eurosmart market vision covers 2008 Smart Card shipments and last forecast for 2009. This new issue integrates market knowledge from all of our members, analysis of general economical environment and market trends.

 

Eurosmart figures are presented in the tables below, with the corresponding comments:

Worldwide Smart Card shipments (Millions of Units - Mu)

(General Assembly, Brussels, 30 April 2009)

Secure contactless market overview 2008

(General Assembly, Brussels, 30 April 2009)

 

Comments

Telecom:
We anticipate a growth in volumes during FY2009 in the range of 3% to 9% compared to FY2008, i.e between 3300Mu and 3500Mu. Emerging markets continue to fuel the growth in volume with, for instance, millions of new subscribers in India and 3G deployments in Brazil and in China. Mature markets experience a new trend around SIM based assets: MNO SIM-only offers for post-paid subscriptions.

 

Financial Services:
In addition to the EMV migration that continues to spread worldwide, we see a stronger growth than initially anticipated (11/2009) in Contactless payment cards (the 100 Million cards in the field should be achieved in the course of 2009).
Eurosmart members revised the 2009 forecast from 700 Mu to 730 Mu.

 

Government:
The adoption of Travel Documents (Passports) is getting global (the 100 countries mark will be achieved in the course of 2009). Eurosmart maintains its conservative forecast issued in November 2008 even though this segment is the most likely to deliver upsides in the course of 2009.