Mobile Payment Statistics: 86 Billion USD This Year

We have written about Square Transaction Statistics and India's Square recently. The mobile payment space is in a boom right now. We spotted this today:

"Worldwide mobile payment users will surpass 141.1 million in 2011, a 38.2 percent increase from 2010, when mobile payment users reached 102.1 million, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide mobile payment volume is forecast to total $86.1 billion, up 75.9 percent from 2010 volume of $48.9 billion."

Statistics Source: Gartner