In 2015, e-commerce revenues in China grew by 42% to reach $672 billion, making it by far the largest e-commerce market in the world. In fact, China accounts for 40% of the world’s total [...]
Across the developed world, several markets have become established as dominant players in international e-commerce – the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Japan and France, just to name a few. But [...]
India, the second most populous country in the world, is currently experiencing a remarkable “digital boom”. Thanks to the ever increasing internet access and the expanding payment options, [...]
The land of the rising sun has one of the most attractive online economies and its maturity only accentuates this attractiveness. The country ranks fourth in the world in terms of e-commerce [...]
Driven by a booming population, improving internet access and rising disposable incomes, Asia Pacific is the world’s fastest-growing e-commerce region (yStats). Meanwhile, young, tech-savvy [...]
The four international e-commerce markets below show that e-commerce potential lies in more emerging economies than just China and India—and that there is still compelling potential in mature [...]
In a previous factsheet, we have already covered Chinese e-commerce. However, given its special status, today we are focusing on Hong Kong. As a special administrative region of China, it has [...]
An e-commerce boom in emerging markets across South America, Asia and Eastern Europe is being propelled by smartphone proliferation, improving broadband and rapid economic growth.Here are some [...]
A city-state of almost 700 km² with a population of just over 5 million inhabitants, Singapore is nonetheless making its mark on the global economy. In addition, it has been classified as “the [...]
We discussed this subject in a previous article: the development of e-commerce is largely driven by emerging countries, with China, Russia and Brazil playing the most significant role. Among the [...]
With a surface area of over 7 million square kilometres and 23 million inhabitants, Australia is an extremely atypical country. To provide a comparison which helps to understand this [...]
Emerging countries hold enormous potential for e-commerce growth. According to A.T. Kearney’s 2013 Global Retail E-commerce Index report, the online retail industry has grown at 17 percent CAGR [...]
Approximately one trillion euro: this is the astronomical turnover record that will be achieved in 2014 in global B2C e-commerce according to eMarketer. This spectacular growth is almost [...]
Unable to ‘try’ before they buy, consumers would never embrace online clothes shopping – or so many retail analysts once argued. Yet according to yStats, apparel is now the biggest e-commerce [...]
