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E-commerce sales via website in the UK 2012-2016, by B2B and B2C

B2B and B2C e-commerce sales over a website in the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2016 (Figures are expressed in billions of British Pounds, except where otherwise indicated)

The data shows the value of business-to-business (B2B, including-business-to-government or B2G) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce sales via website in the UK from 2012 to 2016. In 2016, sales to private customers (B2C) amounted to 142.2 billion GBP. This is an increase of approx. 40 billion GBP since 2012 and 50 billion more than were made via B2B and B2G website sales. For these data only sales made by companies with ten or more employees were counted.

Companies with less employees accounted for 12.3 Billion pounds in B2C website sales in 2015.

2012 100.2 67.3
2013 94.8 87.9
2014 119.3 90.3
2015 125.8 100.9
2016 142.2 94.2