As Alibaba claims its place as one of the world's leading digital companies, one of its oldest and most important services, Alipay, continues to grow at a very impressive clip. In case you aren't familiar with Alipay, it is a fifteen year old online payment service (think: Paypal) that is based in China.
Here are some of the more impressive Alipay statistics I've been able to dig up recently. As always, be sure to check back in the future as I will be updating this post as new and updated stats become available.
Alipay Facts
- Alipay Website: alipay.com
- Year Alipay Launched: 2004
- Alipay Headquarters: Shanghai, China
- Alipay Creator: Jack Ma
- Alipay Parent Company: Ant Financial / Alibaba
- What is Alipay?
Alipay is a third party payment & lifestyle platform for a Cashless Society. It has over 520 million active users and is operated by Ant Financial (source)
Alipay Statistics
Number of Alipay users:
Last updated 4/1/20
Number of Alipay users in China:
Last updated 12/20/19
Number of Alipay users outside of China:
Last updated 12/20/19
Number of Alipay daily active users:
Last updated 7/13/19
Number of Alipay monthly active mobile users:
Last updated 5/19/18
Number of people that have gained employment through Alipay:
Last updated 3/24/20
Number of global markets Alipay is active in:
Last updated 11/14/19
Number of Alipay transactions (all time):
Last updated 12/15/14
Average number of daily Alipay transactions:
175 million transactions per day
Last updated 8/10/16
Alipay's share of the China mobile payment market:
Last updated 12/31/18
Alipay's share of China's mobile payment provider market (by total transaction value):
Last updated 10/24/18
Percentage of Alipay payments that are made on a mobile device:
Last updated 8/10/16
Number of Singles Day 2017 transactions on Alipay:
Peak amount of Singles Day 2017 transactions on Alipay:
256,000 payment transactions per second
Amount of assets managed by Yuebao:
RMB 1.58trillion ($233billion)
Last updated 1/1/18
Number of Yuebao investors:
Last updated 12/14/17
Number of AlipayHK users:
Last updated 3/7/19
Number of Alipay HK merchants:
Last updated 3/7/19
Number of North American retailers Alipay has agreements with:
Last updated 5/21/18
Reported value of Ant Financial:
Last updated 12/20/19
Number of currencies Alipay supports:
Last updated 3/9/19
Number of financial institutions that partner with Alipay:
Last updated 3/6/19
Total amount of Yuebao assets:
RMB1.13 tillion (US $168.47 billion)
Last updated 4/17/19
Number of people that use the Alipay waste-sorting min-program guides:
Last updated 7/3/19
Number of service providers that Apilay has opened its platform to:
Last updated 3/10/20
This report is available in an annual industry report. Some of the data in industry reports include:
- Users
- Demographics
- Revenue
- Growth
- Etc.- all in one place
I try to go through each and every stat regularly and update as much as possible, but we all know that some stats are easier to track down than others. As always, every stat is linked to its original source and has the source date listed.
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Report 1: Alibaba Properties Report (Alibaba, Alipay, Tmall and Taobao).
Report 4: ePay Companies Report (Alipay, Android, Apple, PayPal, Paytm, Samsung and Square).