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- Retail e-commerce sales worldwide were $2290 billion in 2017 and are expected to rise to $2774 billion in 2018.
- Global share of retail from 10.1% in 2017 is predicted to jump to 11.6% in 2018.
- Digital buyers’ penetration worldwide stated for 46.4% in 2017 and will increase to 47.3% in 2018.
- 18% of local searches lead to a sale within 24 hours.
- Mobile will be reaching 70% of e-commerce traffic by the end of 2018.
- B2B e-commerce global sales reached $7.7 trillion in 2017 and are twice bigger than the B2C one.
- Image and voice activated search may make up 50 percent of all searches by 2020.
- By 2019, B2B firms will spend more on e-commerce technology than online retailers do.
- 89% of B2B researchers use the Internet during the B2B research process.
- 69% B2B entities say they expect to stop printing catalogs within five years.
- Augmented reality will generate $120 billion in revenue by 2020.
- The Indian e-commerce industry is expected to become 2nd largest e-commerce market in the world by 2034.
- Total online spending in India is expected to increase by 31% year-on-year to Rs 8.76 trillion ($ 135.8 billion) by 2018.
- The total size of e-Commerce industry (only B2C e-tail) in India is expected to reach $ 101.9 billion by 2020.