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Shopify Stores in United Arab Emirates

Updated Jul 4 2025

There are 21,733 live Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates.

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Shopify Growth in United Arab Emirates

Shopify's worldwide quarter-over-quarter growth has been quite impressive over the last few years, and that trend is visible within most countries.

  • Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates increased 0.7% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q2.
  • Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates increased 25% year-over-year in 2025 Q2.

Here is Shopify's quarter-over-quarter growth in United Arab Emirates.

Quarter
Active Stores
2019 Q1
1,721
2019 Q2
1,622
2019 Q3
1,646
2019 Q4
1,983
2020 Q1
2,192
2020 Q2
2,586
2020 Q3
3,006
2020 Q4
3,448
2021 Q1
3,809
2021 Q2
4,364
2021 Q3
4,754
2021 Q4
5,320
2022 Q1
5,456
2022 Q2
6,273
2022 Q3
7,063
2022 Q4
7,691
2023 Q1
8,969
2023 Q2
10,082
2023 Q3
11,760
2023 Q4
14,076
2024 Q1
16,333
2024 Q2
17,221
2024 Q3
18,061
2024 Q4
18,830
2025 Q1
20,759
2025 Q2
21,578
2025 Q3 (to date)
21,733
Active Stores by Quarter

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

It's hard to know exactly when a Shopify store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that provides a reasonable approximation.

Top Categories For Shopify Stores In United Arab Emirates

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates.

  • 28.9% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates sell Apparel products.
  • 17.7% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates sell Beauty & Fitness products.
  • 13.6% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates sell Home & Garden products.

Social Media Usage On Shopify Stores In United Arab Emirates

Ecommerce brands use social media sites to engage with millions of consumers. Instagram and Facebook are the dominant social media sites for ecommerce stores, by far, with Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube also having notable usage.

  • Instagram is used by 53.5% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates.
  • Facebook is used by 25.0% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates.
  • Tiktok is used by 17.6% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates.
Type
Stores
Instagram
11,629
Facebook
5,434
Tiktok
3,832
YouTube
2,377
LinkedIn
1,354
Twitter
1,276
WhatsApp
1,253
Pinterest
1,101

Contact Information On Shopify Stores In United Arab Emirates

Email remains an extremely popular communication channel for merchants. Many merchants also provide a phone number so that their customers can reach them instantly.

  • 63% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates have an email on their website
  • 44% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
13,683
Phone
9,537

Shopify Plus Stores In United Arab Emirates

There are 191 Shopify Plus stores in United Arab Emirates. For more information on Shopify Plus, read our Shopify Plus report.

Provinces With The Most Shopify Stores In United Arab Emirates

It's relatively easy to identify the country in which an ecommerce store operates. However, very few ecommerce stores provide a location to the province-level or city-level and even fewer provide a street address.

Here is the province distribution of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

  • 14,127 Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates are based in Dubai.
  • 2,501 Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates are based in Abu Dhabi.
  • 2,357 Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates are based in Sharjah.

Cities With The Most Shopify Stores in United Arab Emirates

Here is the city distribution of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

  • 13,781 Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates are based in Dubai.
  • 2,238 Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates are based in Sharjah.
  • 2,179 Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates are based in Abu Dhabi.

Top Shopify Apps in United Arab Emirates

Here are the top 10 apps, ordered by number of installs, across all Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates.

With a paid account on Store Leads, you'll be able to see which stores have installed specific apps. You can also see when specific apps were installed (or uninstalled) by each store.

Number of Employees for Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates

  • 95.7% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates have Unknown employees.
  • 1.7% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 1.0% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates have 10 - 24 employees.

Here is the breakdown of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates by the number of employees.

Employees
Stores
Unknown
20,791
1 - 9
359
10 - 24
222
25 - 49
114
50 - 99
74
100 - 249
86
250 - 999
58
1000 - 4999
20
5000+
9

Top Shipping Carriers For Shopify Stores In United Arab Emirates

  • 2.4% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates ship by Fedex.
  • 2.0% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates ship by UPS.
  • 1.3% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates ship by USPS.

Here are the top shipping carriers for Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
Fedex
526
UPS
434
USPS
274
DHL
136
Aramex
74
Royal Mail
74
Australia Post
29
China Post
22
Canada Post
17
Correos
15

Top-level Domain Distribution For Shopify Stores In United Arab Emirates

.com is the most common top-level domain, by far, for world-wide Shopify stores. Some countries have been faster than others to adopt alternate (such as country-specific) top-level domains.

  • 63.0% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates have a .com domain.
  • 15.7% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates have a .ae domain.
  • 7.2% of Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates have a .store domain.

Here is the top-level domain distribution for Shopify stores in United Arab Emirates.

Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
13,691
.ae
3,411
.store
1,561
.shop
829
.co
399
.net
307
.me
283
.online
257
.org
93
.de
71

Top Shopify Stores In United Arab Emirates

Here are the top stores in United Arab Emirates ordered by worldwide store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
SQUATWOLF
1,623
2017/01/06
INITIO Parfums Privés
4,668
2020/09/04
ELIE SAAB
5,510
2020/05/15
Parfums de Marly
7,920
2019/04/05
Swiss Arabian Global
22,548
2017/09/29

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