Annual number of POS terminals in Portugal 2000-2022
As of the end of 2020, there were approximately 400,000 POS terminals reported to be in Portugal. This number has increased from the previous year, when there were around 386,000 POS devices in the country. While cash usage still amounts to 37 percent of retail payments (2019), this type of payment has become less popular over the last five years. By 2022, there were almost 408 thousand POS terminals in the country, the highest number so far.