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Interesting Facts on E-Commerce

By Dan Wickizer on Aug 29, 2023
Posted in General
  1. US ecommerce sales are expected to cross the $1 trillion threshold in 2022. 
  2. Global ecommerce sales are expected to more than double prepandemic levels by 2025 to $7.4 trillion.  
  3. In 2021, global ecommerce sales were expected to grow by 14.5%
  4. Social commerce sales will reach $45.74 billion in 2022. 
  5. 78% of retailers increased their ecommerce budget for 2021. 
  6. 18% of all retail sales were conducted online, a number expected to reach 22% by 2024.  
  7. Global B2C ecommerce sales were estimated to reach $4 trillion in 2020 and are expected to reach $5 trillion by 2022.  
  8. Global B2B ecommerce sales were expected to climb from $7.7 trillion in 2018 to $17.6 trillion in 2022.  
  9. 57% of shoppers have made an international purchase online within the past six months, 45.5% of which come from North America.  
  10. Millennials aged 25 to 34 accounted for 20.2% of digital buyers In the US in 2020. 
  11. United States' share of global retail ecommerce sales is expected to drop to 16.9% by 2023 from 22.2% in 2015.  
  12. 44% of all ecommerce sales are expected to be completed through mobile devices by 2025. 
  13. The world witnessed 10 years of ecommerce growth in 90 days during the first quarter of 2020, according to some estimates.  
  14. 65% of consumers prefer to buy products and services from their native country when shopping online. 
  15. 69% of books, music and videos are purchased online. 

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