Top 10 Online Retailers in the World in 2021 by Sales

Amazon.com Inc, JD.com Inc, Walmart Inc, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, and Apple Inc are the top 5 online retailers in the world in 2021 by sales. Collectively, the top 10 online retailers in the world generated retail sales of $593,281 million, the highest retail sales were generated by Amazon.com Inc ($217,610 million), followed by JD.com Inc ($147,942 million) and Walmart Inc ($53,384 million) while the lowest retail sales were generated by Otto GmbH & Co KG ($13,983 million). The United States of America-based Amazon.com Inc is the leading online retailer in the world (by retail sales). The company reported revenues of $513,983 million for the fiscal year ended December 2022 (FY2022), an increase of 9.39% over FY2021. The company is an online retailer and web service provider. It provides products such as apparel, auto, and industrial items, beauty and health products, electronics, groceries, books, games, jewelry, kids and baby products, movies, music, sports goods, toys, tools, and other related products. The company classifies its business operations into three reportable segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and had 672 physical stores in North America and seven in overseas markets. It employs 1,608,000 people. JD.com Inc is one of the leading online retailers in the world (by retail sales). The company reported revenues of $155,496 million for the fiscal year ended December 2022 (FY2022), an increase of 5.39% over FY2022. The company is an online retailer, which sells electronics products and general merchandise products, including audio, video products, and books. It is a chain-based service and technology provider company. The company classifies its business operations into three segments: JD Retail, JD Logistics, and New Businesses. It employs 385,357 people.