World: leading retailers 2027, by forecast total chain retail sales

Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 14, 2025
By 2027, the e-commerce retailer Amazon is forecast to be the leading retailer worldwide, just barely outdoing the Alibaba Group in terms of sales. Specifically, projections for 2027 show that the total chain retail sales of Amazon are going to reach a value of more than 1.18 trillion U.S. dollars. Walmart would rank fifth, generating an estimated 686 billion U.S. dollars in chain retail sales that year.

Leading global retailers by projected total chain retail sales in 2027 (in billion U.S. dollars)

CharacteristicForecast total chain retail sales in billion U.S. dollars
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May 2022

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Worldwide

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March 28, 2022

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