What is the expected failure rate for the Mifare Cards/Keyfobs?

 EEPROM

1 Kbyte, organized in 16 sectors with 4 blocks of 16 bytes each (one block consists of 

16 byte)

User definable access conditions for each memory block

 Data retention of 10 years.

 Write endurance 100.000 cycles

 

You can find this information on the following link on page 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yfrzsoegv3237pe/NXP%20S50.pdf