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 an eleven 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
- Website: alipay.com
- Year launched: 2004
- Headquarters: Shanghai, China
- Creator: Jack Ma
- 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
Total payment volume of Alipay:
Last updated 5/6/14
Number of Alipay users:
608 million monthly active users
Last updated 3/15/19
Number of Alipay daily active users:
Last updated 12/2/16
Number of Alipay monthly active mobile users:
Last updated 5/19/18
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 5/17/17
Alipay’s share of China’s mobile payment provider market (by total transaction value):
Last updated 3/31/17
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
Reported value of Ant Financial:
Last updated 6/8/18
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.
To get your copy of the report, click on the button below to purchase it.
Report 1: Alibaba Properties Report (Alibaba, Alipay, Tmall and Taobao).
Report 2: China Digital Companies Report (Alibaba, Alipay, Baidu, Ctrip, JD.com, QQ, YY, Tmall, Taobao, WeChat and Weibo).
Report 3: eCommerce Companies Report (Alibaba, Alipay, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Ebay, Etsy, Flipkart, JD.com, Tmall, Taobao, PayPal, Paytm and Square).
Report 4: ePay Companies Report (Alipay, Android, Apple, PayPal, Paytm, Samsung and Square).
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