Leading payment methods for online shopping in Sweden 2021

In 2021, payment by card was the most popular online shopping payment method in Sweden. Specifically, this was the preferred option for roughly 60 percent of the respondents from a survey evaluating payment method usage among consumers. Swish was second in the ranking with over 50 percent of respondents preferring it.

Debit and credit card use

The usage rate of debit cards in Sweden remained relatively stable between 2010 and 2020. Over the course of this decade, the number of debit card users had fluctuated between 90 and 95 percent. Conversely, the share of Swedes using credit cards had spiked from about 30 percent in 2018 to roughly 50 percent in 2020.

Swish

The mobile payment system known as Swish is a Swedish application, which has become beloved and used by many consumers in Sweden. In fact, there were over over 8.1 million Swish accounts in Sweden as of March 2021, 7.9 million of which were private accounts, a considerable increase over previous years.