B
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$498,000,000,000
$498,000,000,000 -- online retail sales for European Union ecommerce market (excluding UK) (2026)
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$498,000,000,000
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2026
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75
Source Trust
60
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Web Retailer
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https://www.webretailer.com/marketplaces-worldwide/online-marketplaces-europe/ ↗
Source Article
Online Marketplaces in Europe: Dynamic, Diverse and Disjointed
The European Union (excluding the UK) is the third largest ecommerce market in the world, with total online retail sales of $498 billion annually.
Amazon and eBay lead the market in continental Europe, as they do in the US and UK. Looking past them, there is a huge range of European online marketpla…
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Web Retailer
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Industry publication aggregation; based on SimilarWeb traffic data for marketplace coverage
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Industrymarketing
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European Union ecommerce market (excluding UK): $498,000,000,000 online retail sales. Source: Web Retailer (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/eu-ecommerce-market-size-498b
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