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How many Pokemon trading cards have been printed since the game launched in 1996?

85 billion
cards
85,000,000,000 exactly, give or take
Around 64.8 billion Pokemon cards have been printed — roughly eight cards for every human being alive, enough to deal the entire planet a starter hand.SOURCEThe Pokemon Company official figures (2024)
Scale check: 85 billion is roughly more than everyone alive today.
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