eCommerce Statistics

Last Updated on: January 9th, 2024

Here is a collection of some of the most interesting eCommerce statistics and fun facts I have stumbled across in my internet travels. Posts here cover both individual companies as well as the industry as a whole.

Stat posts here are edited and updated almost daily, so be sure to check back often!

eCommerce Statistics and Facts

 

ecommerce statistics and fun facts

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Current size of the voice shopping market:

$2 billion

Last updated 2/28/18

Number of people that use p2p payment systems:

2.5 billion

Last updated 1/15/18

Amount spent online shopping globally in 2018:

$2.8 trillion

Percentage of total ecommerce sales in 2018 that came from a mobile device:

40%

Last updated 6/19/19

Amount US consumers spent online shopping in 2018:

$517.36 billion

Amount US consumers spent online shopping in 2017:

$449 billion

Amount consumers in China spent online shopping in 2018:

$636 billion

Amount consumers in India spent online shopping in 2017:

$38.5 billion

Percentage of US total retail sales that come from online:

14.3%

Last updated 2018

Projected percentage of US total retail sales in 2022 that will come from online:

17%

Past US ecommerce holiday sales:

China online retail sales for the first half of 2019:

4,816.1 billion yuan (US$701.24 bn)

Percentage of China’s total retail sales that come from online:

18.6%

Last updated 12/6/17

Projected year-over-year growth for US online sales for 2017:

13%

Last updated 6/26/16

First $1 billion online sales day:

Cyber Monday 2016

Percentage of Americans that have made an online purchase:

79%

Last updated 12/19/16

Percentage of Americans that have made an online purchase from a mobile device:

51%

Last updated 12/19/16

Percentage of Americans that have made an online purchase from a social media link:

15%

Last updated 12/19/16

Percentage of Americans that prefer physical stores to online shopping:

64%

Last updated 12/19/16

China’s total ecommerce sales (excluding travel and events tickets) in 2015:

$672 billion

China’s share of global retail ecommerce sales:

54.7%

Last updated 6/25/19

The US’ share of global retail ecommerce sales:

16.6%

Last updated 6/25/19

Percentage of Chinese consumers that order grocery products online:

46%

Last updated 5/14/15

Percentage of shopping money spent online in Asia that comes from China:

60%

Last updated 3/12/14

Percentage of people in China that have used a mobile phone to buy a product:

77% 

Last updated 5/21/14