There were more point-of-sale (POS) terminals in South Africa than any of the other selected African countries, with nearly 403,000 POS terminals in 2018. Zambia had the fewest, with only 6,915 POS terminals in that year.
Number of point-of-sale (POS) terminals in selected African countries in 2016
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