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50% -- cash on delivery share for Africa e-commerce transactions (2025)

Name: Cash On Delivery Share Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-10-03

2025 · torsion.ai

Cash-on-delivery accounts for nearly 50% of e-commerce transactions in Africa.

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Source states 'e-transaction value by volume', conflating transaction value and volume

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50%

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Percentage

Data Vintage

2025

Entity

Africa e-commerce transactions

Geography

MEA

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torsion.ai Primary Tier C

https://torsion.ai/stablecoin-market-entry-beyond-payment-processor-reach/ ↗

Confidence: 23/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl

Source Article

Using Stablecoins When Traditional Payment Processors Say No

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torsion.ai · Original study ↗

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IndustryeCommerce RegionMEA

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Africa e-commerce transactions: 50% cash on delivery share. Source: torsion.ai (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/africa-cash-on-delivery-share

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