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Shopify Stores in Nigeria

Updated Nov 15 2024

There are 2,087 live Shopify stores in Nigeria.

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

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Shopify Growth in Nigeria

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 Nigeria increased 8.5% quarter-over-quarter in 2024 Q3.
  • Shopify stores in Nigeria increased 42% year-over-year in 2024 Q3.

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

Quarter
Active Stores
2019 Q1
541
2019 Q2
634
2019 Q3
728
2019 Q4
839
2020 Q1
839
2020 Q2
1,046
2020 Q3
1,026
2020 Q4
930
2021 Q1
933
2021 Q2
946
2021 Q3
943
2021 Q4
952
2022 Q1
812
2022 Q2
950
2022 Q3
1,025
2022 Q4
1,057
2023 Q1
1,110
2023 Q2
1,280
2023 Q3
1,542
2023 Q4
1,974
2024 Q1
1,730
2024 Q2
1,921
2024 Q3
2,026
2024 Q4 (to date)
2,087
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 Nigeria

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

  • 33.7% of Shopify stores in Nigeria sell Apparel products.
  • 18.1% of Shopify stores in Nigeria sell Beauty & Fitness products.
  • 9.6% of Shopify stores in Nigeria sell Home & Garden products.

Social Media Usage On Shopify Stores In Nigeria

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 35.5% of Shopify stores in Nigeria.
  • Facebook is used by 21.2% of Shopify stores in Nigeria.
  • Twitter is used by 12.8% of Shopify stores in Nigeria.
Type
Stores
Instagram
740
Facebook
442
Twitter
267
YouTube
164
Tiktok
137
Pinterest
75
WhatsApp
52
LinkedIn
51

Contact Information On Shopify Stores In Nigeria

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

  • 45% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have an email on their website
  • 31% of Shopify stores in Nigeria provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
935
Phone
642

Shopify Plus Stores In Nigeria

There are 3 Shopify Plus stores in Nigeria. For more information on Shopify Plus, read our Shopify Plus report.

Provinces With The Most Shopify Stores In Nigeria

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

  • 997 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Lagos.
  • 169 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Federal Capital Territory.
  • 83 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Osun.
Province
Stores
997
83
62
44
42
38
33
30
25
21
18
17

Cities With The Most Shopify Stores in Nigeria

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

  • 660 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Lagos.
  • 418 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Unknown.
  • 164 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Abuja.
City
Stores
660
418
164
144
115
50
37
26
23
22
19
17

Top Shopify Apps in Nigeria

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

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 Nigeria

  • 98.1% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have Unknown employees.
  • 0.6% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.5% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have 10 - 24 employees.

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

Employees
Stores
Unknown
2,048
1 - 9
12
10 - 24
10
25 - 49
4
50 - 99
3
100 - 249
8
250 - 999
2

Top Shipping Carriers For Shopify Stores In Nigeria

  • 3.1% of Shopify stores in Nigeria ship by USPS.
  • 2.7% of Shopify stores in Nigeria ship by Fedex.
  • 2.3% of Shopify stores in Nigeria ship by UPS.

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

Shipping Carrier
Stores
USPS
65
Fedex
56
UPS
48
DHL
16
China Post
13
Royal Mail
6

Top-level Domain Distribution For Shopify Stores In Nigeria

.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.

  • 84.8% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have a .com domain.
  • 4.7% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have a .store domain.
  • 2.3% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have a .ng domain.

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

Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
1,770
.store
99
.ng
47
.shop
45
.com.ng
36
.co
23
.org
13
.net
9
.online
7
.co.uk
4

Top Shopify Stores In Nigeria

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
Supermart.ng
33,290
2020/11/27
Essenza
50,652
2017/10/20
HOG
81,666
2024/03/08
iStore Nigeria
105,910
2023/03/24
www.cocci.com.ng
108,925
2019/01/25

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