E-shoppers who preferred to buy on foreign sites in Latin America 2020, by country

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Stephanie Chevalier,
Oct 21, 2022
During a 2020 study, 51 percent of digital shoppers surveyed in Mexico stated that they preferred to shop online on international websites. Meanwhile, less than 40 percent of respondents in Chile expressed a preference for foreign e-commerce sites. Latin America altogether was forecast to be home to nearly 297 million e-commerce users in 2021.

Percentage of e-commerce users who preferred to shop on international websites in selected Latin American countries in 2020

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December 2020

Region

LAC

Survey time period

November 2 and 15, 2020

Number of respondents

3,280 Latin Americans who purchased from international online merchants*

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* The majority of the respondents were from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile.

The source does not provide information regarding the age of respondents or type of study conducted.

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "In what kind of websites do you prefer to buy online?"

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