3rd April 2013
For the twelve months ending February 2013, Australia’s online retail spending totaled $13.1 billion www.nab.com.au
This compared to the previous year when the 12 months ending February 2012, figure was about $10.9 billion. (5.0% the size of Australia’s traditional (Non-Internet) retail sector)
The original content from this page from 2010 was:
Australian Internet Shopping is a growing industry with turnover expected to be about $4.2 billion for 2010.
It is still very small, but increasing rapidly.
In the USA Online shopping is expected to reach $248.7 billion, and account for 8 percent of total U.S. retail sales, by 2014. Source: reuters.com
| Year | Population | Online sales | Per Person | |
| USA | 2008 | 303,200,000 | $141.9b | $468 |
| USA | 2014 | 311,000,000 | $248.7b | $800 |
| Australia | 2010 | 22,000,000 | $4.2b | $191 |
| Australia | 2011 | 22,000,000 | $10.5b | $477 |
| Australia | 2012 | 22,000,000 | $12.8b | $582 |
2011 Australia
Online sales in Australia at $10.5 billion for 2011, up from 29 per cent on the year before. www.abc.net.au. So, was 2010 really $8.1b online turnover ?
2011 UK
Online retail sales increased by 14% last year (2011) to more than 50bn www.guardian.co.uk
2012 Australia
In 2012, Australia’s online retail spending was $12.8 billion. www.nab.com.au
This represents about 5.8% of the size of Australia’s traditional (Non-Internet) retail sector
2012 UK
Internet sales in the UK were estimated to be 28bn in 2012, according to Panmure Gordon. Expectations are that this will increase to around 70bn by 2020 .