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Worldwide Retail Ecommerce Forecast 2025
Growth Will Muddle Along Despite Significant Challenges in Several Major Markets
Consumers are skittish in several major markets around the world thanks to US-led trade hostilities and the possibility of a recession across North America. China, meanwhile, remains in an extended slump. But the world is large, and much of it will be only tangentially impacted by these challenges. Retail and ecommerce sales worldwide will muddle through.
Key Question: What is the outlook for worldwide, regional, and country-by-country retail and ecommerce sales in 2025 and beyond?
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Key Stat: Ecommerce growth worldwide will decelerate in 2025, due mostly to weakness in China’s economy and trade-war-induced stresses in the major markets of North America. But 2026 will be better.
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Ethan Cramer-Flood
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