{
    "statement": "people shopped online worldwide in 2021, up 68% from 2017",
    "value_display": "2.3B",
    "value_numeric": 2.3,
    "unit": "",
    "data_label": "2021",
    "data_period_end": "2021-12-31",
    "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/news/making-e-commerce-and-digital-economy-work-all",
    "source_quote": "In 2021, 2.3 billion people shopped online, a 68% increase from 2017.",
    "verification_note": "Read on unctad.org news page of 7 Jun 2024. value_numeric is in billions of people.",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": null,
    "revisions": [],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ecommerce/global-online-shoppers",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ecommerce/global-online-shoppers.csv"
}