{
    "statement": "estimated e-commerce sales (almost $27 trillion) by businesses in 43 economies in 2022 (about three quarters of world GDP), most of it business to business",
    "value_display": "$27T",
    "value_numeric": 27,
    "unit": "",
    "data_label": "2022",
    "data_period_end": "2022-12-31",
    "region": "Global",
    "size": "all",
    "source": {
        "name": "UNCTAD e-commerce and digital economy estimates",
        "publisher": "UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)",
        "type": "research",
        "url": "https://unctad.org/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://unctad.org/publication/business-e-commerce-sales-and-role-online-platforms",
    "source_quote": "This represents a 15 per cent increase over pre-pandemic (2019) levels and sales are estimated to have risen a further 10 per cent - to almost $27 trillion - in 2022.",
    "verification_note": "Read on unctad.org, UNCTAD Technical note on ICT for development No. 1 (13 Jun 2024). 2022 is an estimate (\"almost $27 trillion\"). value_numeric is in trillions.",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": null,
    "revisions": [
        {
            "happened_on": "2026-10-23",
            "kind": "correction",
            "value_display": null,
            "note": "Wording corrected to match the source: UNCTAD says 'almost $27 trillion'"
        }
    ],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ecommerce/global-business-ecommerce-sales",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ecommerce/global-business-ecommerce-sales.csv"
}