Highlights. With 439 million active users, PayPal is the #1 most popular online payment processor.
- PayPal users completed 25.355 billion transactions in 2025.
- 2025 PayPal transactions totaled a record $1.79 trillion.
- PayPal has a 44.1% share of the global online payment market (200+ countries and territories).
- Revenue from all PayPal services, including transactions, totaled $33.2 billion in 2025, up 4.32% year-over-year (YoY).
PayPal Transaction Statistics
PayPal facilitates transactions in approximately 140 different currencies.
- The average user made 57.7 purchases with PayPal in 2025, down 4.79% YoY.
- PayPal’s 2025 total payment volume (TPV) increased 6.71% from 2024.
- From 2018 to 2025, PayPal TPV increased 210%, equivalent to a 17.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
- The average PayPal transaction was $70.75 in 2025, up 10.8% YoY.
- 89.8% of PayPal’s revenue came from transactions in 2025.
- PayPal made an average of $1.18 from each transaction.
- PayPal’s take rate was 1.66%; in other words, for every dollar in user transactions, PayPal made just under $0.02.
- PayPal’s take rate declined by an average of 4.76% per year over 5 years.
- PayPal users’ TPV totaled $1.681 trillion in 2024, up 9.98% from $1.529 trillion in 2023.
| Year | Revenue (billions) |
YoY Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $33.17 | 4.32% |
| 2024 | $31.80 | 6.81% |
| 2023 | $29.77 | 8.19% |
| 2022 | $27.52 | 8.46% |
| 2021 | $25.37 | 18.3% |
| 2020 | $21.45 | 20.7% |
| 2019 | $17.77 | 15.0% |
| 2018 | $15.45 | 18.0% |
| 2017 | $13.09 | 20.8% |
| 2016 | $10.84 | 17.2% |
| 2015 | $9.25 | 15.2% |
| 2014 | $8.03 | 19.3% |
| 2013 | $6.73 | 18.8% |
| 2012 | $5.66 | 25.9% |
| 2011 | $4.50 | NA |
PayPal Revenue Statistics
An increasing share of PayPal’s revenue comes from transactions as opposed to nontransactional revenue.
- PayPal’s 2025 net income totaled $5.23 billion.
- In 2025, PayPal made a total of $29.80 billion from transactions alone, up 3.31% from 2024 ($28.84 billion).
- PayPal also made $3.37 billion from other services in 2025 for a total revenue of $33.172 billion.
- Nontransactional revenue increased 14.2% YoY.
- Over the past 5 years, PayPal’s revenue had a CAGR of 9.10%.
- PayPal’s international revenues totaled $14.30 billion in 2025, 43.1% of total revenue.
- The international contribution to transaction revenues increased 1.34% from 2024 when the contribution was 42.6%.
PayPal Account Statistics
Most PayPal users are individuals who primarily use the service for retail purchases and personal banking.
- PayPal had a total of 439 million active accounts at the end of 2025, up 1.15% YoY.
- The number of active accounts grew at a CAGR of 3.09% over 5 years.
- 91.8% of all active accounts in 2023 were consumer accounts.
- PayPal had 391 million active consumer accounts and 35 million active merchant accounts at the end of 2023.
PayPal Consumer Statistics
Among users of digital wallets and banking apps, PayPal is preferred above any of the other Top 6 apps.
- 94% of U.S. PayPal users are smartphone owners.
- U.S. PayPal users are 4.00% more likely to live in large cities than in any other type of community.
- 67% of consumers prefer to make returns at an in-person drop-off at either the retailer’s store or third-party stores.
- 87% of consumers say they look for online purchases that offer free returns.
PayPal Consumer Demographics
Consumers across all generations use PayPal.
- 28% of PayPal users are aged 50 to 64 years.
- 22% of PayPal users are aged 40 to 49 years.
- 29% of PayPal users are aged 30 to 39 years.
- 20% of PayPal users are aged 18 to 29 years.
PayPal Corporate Statistics
PayPal subsidiaries or “payment solutions” include Venmo, Xoom, Paidy, and Honey, among others; digital wallet Zettle is for point-of-sale transactions.
- PayPal had 23,800 global employees in 2025.
- 57.2% of PayPal’s workforce identifies as male, and 42.6% identify as female.
- 9,600 or 40.3% of all PayPal employees are in the U.S.
- PayPal’s outstanding common stock shares totaled 920.7 million at the beginning of 2026.
- At the end of 2025, PayPal stock shares were worth $71.3 billion.
These data and insights were compiled by the Capital One Shopping team based on publicly available data.
Sources
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, PayPal Holdings, Inc.
- PayPal, Investor Relations: News & Events
- Statista, PayPal