Global Smart Card Market Insights, Forecast to 2025

A smart card, a type of chip card, is a plastic card embedded with a computer chip that stores and transacts data between users. This data is associated with either value or information or both and is stored and processed within the card’s chip, either a memory or microprocessor. The card data is transacted via a reader that is part of a computing system. Smart card-enhanced systems are in use today throughout several key applications, including healthcare, banking, entertainment and transportation. To various degrees, all applications can benefit from the added features and security that smart cards provide.
China’s Smart Card industry is still in the development stage. China is a large population country, there are only few manufacturers which can produce the Smart Card product. Most of Smart Card products are still relying on import. With the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) have announced all banking cards in China would migrate to smart cards,the demand for smart card have a rapid development in recent two years. At present, there is still a wide gap in the market size, the capital , marketing, product development or technical studies between China domestic enterprises and foreign enterprises , especially in some high-end technology field.
In the coming years, Smart Card market is expected to witness the highest growth rate in the Asia-Pacific region. Although Smart Card brings a lot of opportunities, the study group recommends the new entrants just having money but without technical advantage and upstream and downstream support do not to enter into this field.

The Smart Card market was valued at 7550 Million US$ in 2018 and is projected to reach 11200 Million US$ by 2025, at a CAGR of 5.0% during the forecast period. In this study, 2018 has been considered as the base year and 2019 to 2025 as the forecast period to estimate the market size for Smart Card.

This report presents the worldwide Smart Card market size (value, production and consumption), splits the breakdown (data status 2014-2019 and forecast to 2025), by manufacturers, region, type and application.
This study also analyzes the market status, market share, growth rate, future trends, market drivers, opportunities and challenges, risks and entry barriers, sales channels, distributors and Porter's Five Forces Analysis.

The following manufacturers are covered in this report:
Gemalto
Giesecke & Devrient
Oberthur Technologies
Morpho (Safran)
VALID
Eastcompeace
Wuhan Tianyu
Datang
Kona I
CPI Card Group
Watchdata Systems Co. Ltd
Hengbao

Smart Card Breakdown Data by Type
Contact Cards
Contactless Cards
Memory Cards
CPU/MPU Microprocessor Multifunction Cards
Smart Card Breakdown Data by Application
Secure identity applications
Healthcare applications
Payment applications
Telecommunications applications

Smart Card Production by Region
United States
Europe
China
Japan
Other Regions

Smart Card Consumption by Region
North America
United States
Canada
Mexico
Asia-Pacific
China
India
Japan
South Korea
Australia
Indonesia
Malaysia
Philippines
Thailand
Vietnam
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Rest of Europe
Central & South America
Brazil
Rest of South America
Middle East & Africa
GCC Countries
Turkey
Egypt
South Africa
Rest of Middle East & Africa

The study objectives are:
To analyze and research the global Smart Card status and future forecast,involving, production, revenue, consumption, historical and forecast.
To present the key Smart Card manufacturers, production, revenue, market share, and recent development.
To split the breakdown data by regions, type, manufacturers and applications.
To analyze the global and key regions market potential and advantage, opportunity and challenge, restraints and risks.
To identify significant trends, drivers, influence factors in global and regions.
To analyze competitive developments such as expansions, agreements, new product launches, and acquisitions in the market.

In this study, the years considered to estimate the market size of Smart Card :
History Year: 2014 - 2018
Base Year: 2018
Estimated Year: 2019
Forecast Year: 2019 - 2025

This report includes the estimation of market size for value (million USD) and volume (K Units). Both top-down and bottom-up approaches have been used to estimate and validate the market size of Smart Card market, to estimate the size of various other dependent submarkets in the overall market. Key players in the market have been identified through secondary research, and their market shares have been determined through primary and secondary research. All percentage shares, splits, and breakdowns have been determined using secondary sources and verified primary sources.

For the data information by region, company, type and application, 2018 is considered as the base year. Whenever data information was unavailable for the base year, the prior year has been considered.

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