US Retail Ecommerce Sales

Timeframe20232024202520262027
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Source: eMarketer

Note: includes products or services ordered using the internet, regardless of the method of payment or fulfillment; excludes travel and event tickets, payments such as bill pay, taxes, or money transfers, restaurant sales, food services and drinking place sales, gambling and other vice goods sales

Additional Note: eMarketer benchmarks its US retail ecommerce sales figures against US Department of Commerce data from 2020 onward. The last full year measured was 2022.

Methodology: Estimates are based on the analysis of data from other research firms and government agencies, historical trends, reported and estimated revenues of major online retailers, consumer online buying trends, and macro-level economic conditions.

Comparative Estimates from Additional Sources:

Retail ecommerce sales, US, trillions

Sources2021202220232024202520262027
eMarketer,February 2023
J.P. Morgan,December 2019
Forrester Research,August 2018
JMP Securities,March 2020
Raymond James,June 2018
Cowen and Company,March 2019

Retail ecommerce sales growth, US

Sources2021202220232024202520262027
eMarketer,February 2023
J.P. Morgan,December 2019
JMP Securities,March 2020
Raymond James,June 2018
Cowen and Company,March 2019

Retail ecommerce sales (% of total retail sales), US

Sources2021202220232024202520262027
eMarketer,February 2023
J.P. Morgan,December 2019
Raymond James,June 2018
Cowen and Company,March 2019
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