The Autonomous Region of Madeira registered 20,746 contracts associated with new credit cards in 2025, involving 18,386 people and a total amount of 35 million euros, according to the Regional Statistical Directorate.
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29/10/2026
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A Autonomous Region of Madeira registered 20,746 contracts associated with new credit cards in 2025, involving 18,386 people and a total amount of 35 million euros, today indicated the Regional Directorate of Statistics.
The data show that the amount contracted remained unchanged compared to 2024, while the number of contracts concluded decreased by 2.9% and that of persons also decreased by 4.3%.
Credit cards represent only 4.8% of the total amount of the new credit granted in 2025 in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, which was EUR 724 million.
DREM states that people aged 18 to 35 accounted for 40.6% of users of this type of credit.
Men accounted for 51.2% of the total, with a slight predominance of women (48.8%).
The regional authority underlines that employees accounted for 59.3% of the debtors, less 2.3 pp. than in 2024.
The foreign population represented 6.3% of people who used credit cards, more 1.0 p.p. than in 2024, especially those of Venezuelan nationality (21.7%), Brazilian (10.7%), Bangladesh (10.6%) and Nepal (7.8%).