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Shopify Stores in Nigeria

Updated Dec 19 2025

There are 3,093 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 13.1% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q3.
  • Shopify stores in Nigeria increased 35% year-over-year in 2025 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
2,153
2025 Q1
2,331
2025 Q2
2,409
2025 Q3
2,735
2025 Q4 (to date)
3,093
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.

  • 36.4% of Shopify stores in Nigeria sell Apparel products.
  • 17.4% of Shopify stores in Nigeria sell Beauty & Fitness products.
  • 9.4% 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 32.1% of Shopify stores in Nigeria.
  • Facebook is used by 16.3% of Shopify stores in Nigeria.
  • Twitter is used by 12.2% of Shopify stores in Nigeria.
Type
Stores
Instagram
993
Facebook
505
Twitter
377
Tiktok
332
YouTube
228
Pinterest
89
WhatsApp
83
LinkedIn
70

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.

  • 41% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have an email on their website
  • 26% of Shopify stores in Nigeria provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
1,281
Phone
817

Shopify Plus Stores In Nigeria

There are 22 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.

  • 1,427 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Lagos.
  • 374 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Federal Capital Territory.
  • 119 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Rivers.
Province
Stores
1,427
119
99
84
59
54
50
48
39
35
30
28

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.

  • 934 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Lagos.
  • 467 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Unknown.
  • 355 Shopify stores in Nigeria are based in Abuja.
City
Stores
934
467
355
239
143
78
58
37
31
30
26
25
23

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

  • 98.4% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have Unknown employees.
  • 0.7% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.3% 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
3,044
1 - 9
23
10 - 24
8
25 - 49
5
50 - 99
4
100 - 249
7
250 - 999
1
5000+
1

Top Shipping Carriers For Shopify Stores In Nigeria

  • 2.4% of Shopify stores in Nigeria ship by USPS.
  • 2.1% of Shopify stores in Nigeria ship by Fedex.
  • 2.0% of Shopify stores in Nigeria ship by UPS.

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

Shipping Carrier
Stores
USPS
73
Fedex
64
UPS
62
DHL
19
China Post
14
Royal Mail
7
Canada Post
2
GLS Parcel
1
Japan Post
1

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.

  • 83.3% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have a .com domain.
  • 6.7% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have a .store domain.
  • 2.3% of Shopify stores in Nigeria have a .shop domain.

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

Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
2,576
.store
206
.shop
71
.ng
67
.com.ng
37
.co
31
.org
16
.net
11
.xyz
9
.online
8

Top Shopify Stores In Nigeria

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
Supermart.ng
36,273
2020/11/27
Essenza
49,316
2017/10/20
iStore Nigeria
73,343
2023/03/24
Maybrands NG
88,805
2024/04/26
hogfurniture.co
97,148
2024/03/08

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