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16.1%

16.1% -- ecommerce share of retail sales for US/global e-commerce sector (2021)

Name: Ecommerce Share Of Retail Sales Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-18

2021 · sparkshipping.com

eCommerce accounts for more than 16.1% of all retail sales.

Primary source and exact measurement period for the statistic are not specified in the blog text.

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Value

16.1%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2021

Entity

US/global e-commerce sector

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

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61/100 confidence

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Source

sparkshipping.com Primary Tier C

https://www.sparkshipping.com/blog/tag/dropshipping-products ↗

Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2021 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

Dropshipping Automation Blog | Spark Shipping

Original Research

sparkshipping.com · Original study ↗

Methodology

Blog citing aggregate ecommerce share of retail sales; original source not identified

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Industrymarketing

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US/global e-commerce sector: 16.1% ecommerce share of retail sales. Source: sparkshipping.com (2021). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ecommerce-share-of-retail-2021

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