E-commerce market in europe in B2C

The paper presents the changes that have taken place in the E-commerce market in Europe. The European B2C e-commerce sales have been steadily growing since 2011. Still, the growth rate has decreased the last few years, from 18.4% in 2011 to 13.3% in 2015 and 12% in 2016. The value of market in 2016 was € 509.9 billion. In the category of B2C e-commerce sales, the UK was the clear leader in Europe. In 2015, the British in total spent €157.1bn online, which is more than France (€64.9bn), Germany (€59.7bn) and Russia (€20.5bn) combined. In addition, the share of the UK was more than twice as much as all the other countries outside the top 10 combined. It was found that E-commerce market developed faster than economy but was dependent from her.

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Opracowanie rekordu w ramach umowy 509/P-DUN/2018 ze środków MNiSW przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (2019).