Estimated fastest-growing retail e-commerce countries 2025

Forecasts indicate significant growth in the e-commerce sectors of Asia in 2025. Topping the list are the Philippines and Thailand, poised for a surge of approximately ** percent and ** percent in online sales, respectively. Following closely behind, Russia secures the third spot with an ** percent growth rate. 

A growing global e-retail market

Partly fueled by a rapid increase in internet users worldwide over recent years, along with mobility constraints and the shutdown of physical stores during the COVID-19 pandemic, the global e-commerce retail market expanded fourfold from 2014 to 2022. Central to this growth has been the widespread adoption of mobile commerce, which entails online shopping through smartphones, particularly prominent in various regions of the global South. Forecasts suggested that m-commerce sales in Argentina are poised to surge by around *** times between 2022 and 2026.

Fast-growing markets fueled by local players

While online retail giants Amazon and Alibaba Group wield global dominance in the e-commerce landscape, they do not hold the top positions in many of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets. Based on monthly website traffic, Singaporean e-retailer Shopee is the leading e-commerce site in Singapore by a significant margin. This trend is even more pronounced in Argentina, where Mercado Libre garners nearly ** times the traffic witnessed on Amazon's Spanish page, amazon.es.