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Shopify Stores in Afghanistan

Updated Dec 5 2025

There are 27 live Shopify stores in Afghanistan.

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

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Shopify Growth in Afghanistan

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 Afghanistan decreased -3.6% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q3.
  • Shopify stores in Afghanistan increased 65% year-over-year in 2025 Q3.

Here is Shopify's quarter-over-quarter growth in Afghanistan.

Quarter
Active Stores
2019 Q1
10
2019 Q2
11
2019 Q3
12
2019 Q4
10
2020 Q1
12
2020 Q2
14
2020 Q3
15
2020 Q4
17
2021 Q1
18
2021 Q2
10
2021 Q3
6
2021 Q4
7
2022 Q1
12
2022 Q2
15
2022 Q3
11
2022 Q4
11
2023 Q1
10
2023 Q2
8
2023 Q3
13
2023 Q4
26
2024 Q1
37
2024 Q2
26
2024 Q3
17
2024 Q4
20
2025 Q1
24
2025 Q2
24
2025 Q3
28
2025 Q4 (to date)
27
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 Afghanistan

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for Shopify stores in Afghanistan.

  • 37.0% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan sell Apparel products.
  • 22.2% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan sell Beauty & Fitness products.
  • 7.4% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan sell Pets & Animals products.

Social Media Usage On Shopify Stores In Afghanistan

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 14.8% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan.
  • WhatsApp is used by 7.4% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan.
  • Facebook is used by 7.4% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan.
Type
Stores
Instagram
4
WhatsApp
2
Facebook
2
LinkedIn
1

Contact Information On Shopify Stores In Afghanistan

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

  • 33% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan have an email on their website
  • 19% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
9
Phone
5

Provinces With The Most Shopify Stores In Afghanistan

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 Afghanistan. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

  • 18 Shopify stores in Afghanistan are based in Kabul.
  • 1 Shopify stores in Afghanistan are based in Badakhshan.
  • 1 Shopify stores in Afghanistan are based in Herat.
Province
Stores
18
1

Cities With The Most Shopify Stores in Afghanistan

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

  • 18 Shopify stores in Afghanistan are based in Kabul.
  • 7 Shopify stores in Afghanistan are based in Unknown.
  • 1 Shopify stores in Afghanistan are based in Herat.
City
Stores
18
1

Top Shopify Apps in Afghanistan

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

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 Afghanistan

  • 100.0% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan have Unknown employees.

Here is the breakdown of Shopify stores in Afghanistan by the number of employees.

Employees
Stores
Unknown
27

Top Shipping Carriers For Shopify Stores In Afghanistan

  • 3.7% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan ship by Fedex.
  • 3.7% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan ship by USPS.

Here are the top shipping carriers for Shopify stores in Afghanistan.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
Fedex
1
USPS
1

Top-level Domain Distribution For Shopify Stores In Afghanistan

.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.

  • 81.5% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan have a .com domain.
  • 7.4% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan have a .store domain.
  • 3.7% of Shopify stores in Afghanistan have a .co.nz domain.

Here is the top-level domain distribution for Shopify stores in Afghanistan.

Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
22
.store
2
.co.nz
1
.online
1
.org
1

Top Shopify Stores In Afghanistan

Here are the top stores in Afghanistan ordered by worldwide store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
Khyber Publishing
3,311,767
2020/05/01
Zohak
3,603,951
2025/09/26
Maiwand Bazar
5,989,644
2017/04/07
PAWNITY
6,834,060
2023/12/29
a.smith store
7,316,471
2025/10/10

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