Updated by Pokémon for the calendar year March 2023 - March 2024:
Compared to last year:
11.9 billion is a lot of cards. Even with bulk and energy cards, there is still a ton of chase cards to go around.
Don’t tell @bk2021 haha
Those printers have no chill, insane numbers.
Another friendly reminder to stay away from modern sealed as an investment.
It has to be JP and CHI right? JP singles are nowhere near SWSH prices which would make it seem like it. Chinese is a huge market too and they would have to have a minimum print run there.
Not sure why ENG would print some more when SV sales have been slow.
No matter how slow, English as the global tcg language is always the most printed
Nice to see that they finally corrected the number of printed languages (in the last years the number was one too low respectively)
Some TCG sales history data from the past fiscal years:
2022/2022 - 43.2 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2022) 2020/2021 - 34.1 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2021) 2019/2020 - 30.4 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2020) 2019 - 28.8 billion cards - (as of the end of September 2019) 2018/2019 - 27.2 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2019) 2017/2018 - 25.7 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2018) 2016/2017 - 23.6 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2017) 2015/2016 seems not to be present 2014/2015 - 21.5 billion cards - (as of the end of March 2015)
So around a decade later there has been an additional 43b cards produced (since March 2015, anyway). 
Interesting data.
I know a Belgian factory is producing French cards again, although booster boxes only (other products are still printed in the USA). I don’t know if other languages are produced there as well but it’s likely.
Lets assume the 11.9B were all sets with alt arts in them. Let’s assume 50% of the print is English. Let’s say an alt art is 1 in every 3 booster boxes. That’s 1 alt in every (36 packs3 Booster boxes 10 cards per pack)= 1080 Cards.
6B/ 1080= 5.55M English alt arts.
60 swsh alt art ~100K copies of each alt art.
15K Umbreon VMax PSA pop report, I think that sounds about right. Any thoughts?
I have heard estimates of 10%-20% of all Umbreon VMAX AA are in plastic prison, so those numbers you provided are probably in the ballpark.
100k is a very large quantity of a single card.
Some recent promos (Van Gogh Pikachu & Poké Post), a German Silver Tempest print run and some recent German Scarlet & Violet sets were also printed there.
I think comparing it to the rarity of a Fossil unlimited Holo might be pretty close. More rare than a base set holo but about the same rarity as a fossil unlimited holo
Nice, the ‘Number of languages to date’ with 15 is finally correct. In previous years it was always too low. I reported it once one or two years ago, so perhaps they listened, haha. 
Greetz,
Quuador
What the difference between 9 and 15? Is it that Pokemon currently prints 9 languages, but discontinued 6 others that they previously printed?
Exactly. Dutch, Polish, and Russian are no longer printed but were at one point.
There are 12 languages currently being printed
Wait so it’s 9 or 12?
Now I understand the feeding frenzy on those Russian/Polish cards a month ago.
It’s 12 currently being printed.
Japanese, Korean, Thai, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Indonesian.
English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Box sets like Jirachi v with the rare swsh299 were made/produced in Belgium/netherlands.
Also few new sets like paradox rift have new booster box cases with printed in Belgium/netherlands on them.
The number of countries has also gone up from 89 to 93 and 2 years ago it was 77.
The majority of them do not get their own languages unlike Chinese, but I do wonder what markets Pokemon is suddenly going into.
