PayPal vs. Google Checkout: countries supported

Your choice of payment processors ultimately determines the number of people who can potentially purchase your product or service. Looking at the differences between PayPal and Google Checkout, I couldn't find a comparison of the countries each processor supported so I quickly whipped up my own using the data presented in the country list drop-downs that each processor presents on its sign up page.

Summary

PayPal supports substantially more countries than Google Checkout but it doesn't support a complete superset. If you want to reach the largest possible audience, you should implement both payment methods.

Details

Paypal supports 190 countries while Google Checkout supports just 142.

122 of those countries are the same (intersection).

By implementing both checkout methods, you can support a total of 210 countries (union).

These are the 68 countries that PayPal supports that Google Checkout does not (difference):

  1. Andorra
  2. Anguilla
  3. Argentina
  4. Aruba
  5. Bhutan
  6. Brazil
  7. Burundi
  8. Cayman Islands
  9. Chad
  10. China Worldwide
  11. Comoros
  12. Cook Islands
  13. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  14. Djibouti
  15. Dominica
  16. Eritrea
  17. Ethiopia
  18. Falkland Islands
  19. Federated States of Micronesia
  20. Fiji
  21. French Guiana
  22. French Polynesia
  23. Gambia
  24. Grenada
  25. Guadeloupe
  26. Guinea
  27. Guinea Bissau
  28. Guyana
  29. Kiribati
  30. Kyrgyzstan
  31. Lesotho
  32. Madagascar
  33. Malawi
  34. Marshall Islands
  35. Martinique
  36. Mauritania
  37. Mayotte
  38. Mongolia
  39. Montserrat
  40. Nauru
  41. New Caledonia
  42. Niger
  43. Niue
  44. Norfolk Island
  45. Palau
  46. Papua New Guinea
  47. Pitcairn Islands
  48. Republic of the Congo
  49. Reunion
  50. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  51. Samoa
  52. Sierra Leone
  53. Solomon Islands
  54. Somalia
  55. South Korea
  56. St. Helena
  57. St. Kitts and Nevis
  58. St. Lucia
  59. St. Pierre and Miquelon
  60. Suriname
  61. Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
  62. Swaziland
  63. São Tomé and Príncipe
  64. Tonga
  65. Turks and Caicos Islands
  66. Tuvalu
  67. Vanuatu
  68. Wallis and Futuna Islands

And here are the 20 countries that Google Checkout supports that PayPal does not (difference):

  1. Bangladesh
  2. Belarus
  3. British Indian Ocean Territory
  4. Cameroon
  5. Côte d'Ivoire
  6. Equatorial Guinea
  7. Georgia
  8. Ghana
  9. Haiti
  10. Lebanon
  11. Macedonia
  12. Moldova
  13. Monaco
  14. Nigeria
  15. Pakistan
  16. Paraguay
  17. Puerto Rico
  18. Serbia and Montenegro
  19. Uzbekistan
  20. Zimbabwe

I hope you find this useful. Download the python script (paypal-google.py.zip, 4KB).

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