C
Evidence Grade C
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Aging
20.8%
20.8% — ecommerce return rate average for Global Ecommerce Retailers (2024)
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Evidence graded
Value
20.8%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2024
Entity
Study Type
Unknown
Trend
Increasing
Evidence Quality
C
Moderate quality evidence
Useful directional data with some methodological gaps. Treat as indicative rather than definitive — corroborate before citing in formal research.
Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
50
Citation Chain
90
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
8
Sources (20)
National Retail Federation
Primary
Tier A
https://nrf.com/research/2024-return-policy-survey ↗
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Original Research
National Retail Federation
· Original study ↗
Methodology
NRF Return Policy Survey 2024. Average return rate for online retail purchases as a percentage of total sales.
Study: Unknown
Segmentation
Industryretail_ecommerce
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Global Ecommerce Retailers: 20.8% ecommerce return rate average. Source: National Retail Federation (2024). Via Lighthouse Research Data — https://lighthousedata.io/data/ecommerce-return-rate-average-global-ecommerce-retailers-2024
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ecommerce-return-rate-average-global-ecommerce-retailers-2024" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>20.8%</strong> — ecommerce return rate average for Global Ecommerce Retailers<br><small>Source: National Retail Federation (2024) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ecommerce-return-rate-average-global-ecommerce-retailers-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Data</a></small></blockquote>
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