Every minute, six million people make an online purchase. Specifically, the 5.7 million searches carried out on Google translate into $434,014 per minute in sales on the network worldwide, according to 2021 data collected by Visual Capitalist .
In Spain, the figures are clearly on the rise . 86% of the population already buys and sells through the internet, a very high figure if we place it in the international context. Half of the population in India lives disconnected from the Internet, by 41% in China and 81% in countries such as Ethiopia or the Congo.
In the last year, in addition, the number of people who not only buy but also sell online has increased . According to the second edition of Adevinta's Digital Pulse , 58% of Spaniards have made some sale over the Internet, either regularly or sporadically. This represents a growth of 13 points compared to the 2020 data.