The State of AliExpress in 2025

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on AliExpress usage.

• AliExpress growth
• Top categories for AliExpress stores
• Top countries for AliExpress stores
• Number of employees for AliExpress stores
• Number of products sold for AliExpress stores
• AliExpress store top-level domain distribution
• Top AliExpress stores
• New AliExpress stores
• Stores switching to AliExpress from other platforms

AliExpress Growth

At present, there are 760 live stores running on the AliExpress platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running AliExpress.

Note: the store counts displayed in this section are based on actual historical store counts.

It's hard to know exactly when a AliExpress store was first created but we use a heuristic that includes historical DNS data which provides a reasonable approximation.

Top Categories For AliExpress Stores

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for stores on AliExpress.

• 8.6% of AliExpress stores sell Apparel products.
• 7.1% of AliExpress stores sell Home & Garden products.
• 2.1% of AliExpress stores sell Business & Industrial products.

Top Countries For AliExpress Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using AliExpress.

• 0.4% of AliExpress stores are in United States

With a paid account, stores can also be segmented by region and city.

Number Of Employees For AliExpress Stores

Here is the breakdown of AliExpress stores by the number of employees.

• 100.0% of AliExpress stores have Unknown employees.

Number Of Products Sold For AliExpress Stores

Here is the breakdown of AliExpress stores by the number of products that they sell.

• 9.3% of AliExpress stores sell 1 - 9 different products.

AliExpress Store Top-level Domain Distribution

.com is the most popular top-level domain for AliExpress stores. This is not surprising since alternate top-level domains have only been introduced somewhat recently and there is still a certain cachet associated with .com domains.

That said, you'll find stark regional differences in certain countries. In Australia, .com.au is the most common top-level domain with .com a close second. This is the exception however as .com domains dominate in virtually all other countries.

• 99.6% of AliExpress stores have a .com domain.
• 0.4% of AliExpress stores have a .us domain.

Top AliExpress Stores

Here are the top stores, powered by AliExpress, ordered by store rank.

New AliExpress Stores

Here are the 5 highest-ranked stores added most recently.

Stores Switching to AliExpress From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, AliExpress has taken 11 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Here are the top stores that have switched to AliExpress from competitive ecommerce platforms.

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