So in 2013, the global ecommerce market was

$1.5

trillion1

But at least

*This is the most conservative figure we found. We’ve actually seen bad address rates as high as 70%.

of those orders never made it.

Not cool.And remember – that’s just the UKwhich is just 10.2 percent of the global ecommerce picture.

The global address data problem amounts to $2.7 billion.

And you’d better start doing something about it.

Which means the problem is a whole lot bigger when your deliveries go around the world.

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Sources:

1 eMarketer: Global B2C Ecommerce Sales to Hit $1.5 Trillion This Year Driven by Growth in Emerging Markets, Feb 2014, http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Global-B2C-Ecommerce-Sales-Hit-15-Trillion-This-Year-Driven-by-Growth-Emerging-Markets/1010575

2 Capgemini £91 billion spent online in 2013 - IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, Jan 2014 http://www.uk.capgemini.com/news/uk-news/ps91-billion-spent-online-in-2013-imrg-capgemini-e-retail-sales-index

3 eConsultancy eCommerce statistics June 2014 https://econsultancy.com/reports/ecommerce-statistics

4 IMRG MetaPack UK Delivery Index Report June 2012 http://www.metapack.com/sites/default/files/downloads/whitepaper/IMRG_MetaPack_Delivery_Index_Jun_2012.pdf andIMRG MetaPack UK Delivery Index Report December 2012http://www.metapack.com/sites/default/files/downloads/whitepaper/December%20Delivery%20Index%20-%20November%202012.pdf

Disclaimer: Since most of the figures used represent the UK ecommerce market, we have converted them from pound sterling to US dollars using an exchange rate of 1.69.

Based on an analysis of 44 million addresses in our Data Quality Center.

And the UK is good with address data.

9%more validated

addressesfewer errors than the

global average

7%

Why?Because of bad addresses.

0.18%*4

million transactions.

781(That’s 781,725,888 to be precise.)

Which tells us that there were about

$197 3

And the average UK order value was

Cool.

Counting the costs of ecommerce’s global address data problem

Undelivered

orders disrupted

1.4 millionThat’s at least

worth of transactions

$277,199,999Or

items that weren’t delivered

4.5 millionOr

billion2

$154 In the UK that was