This Market Data report provides a comprehensive look at the installed base and shipments of government and healthcare citizen ID credentials. Data are split into six major product types: driving licenses, healthcare cards, national ID cards, passports, voter’s cards, and others, which include applications such as social and welfare cards. Government and healthcare citizen ID data are split into smart and legacy applications with further granularity supplied for smart cards. All data are broken down into interface type by product (contact, pure contactless, and dual interface). A 5 year forecast period to 2019 provides ABI Research’s view on the likely outcome of future market growth and on which product types, interfaces, and regions will have the best success at adoption. Forecasted data are included for all major regions: North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, with selected country-specific coverage in those regions demonstrating a good level of activity in government issued ID credentials: Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Mexico, the United States, the rest of the Americas, Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Rest of Asia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Turkey, UK, Egypt, Ghana, Iran, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the rest of the Middle East and Africa.