Amazon: number of active customer accounts worldwide 1997-2015

This statistic gives information on the worldwide number of active Amazon customer accounts between 2007 and 2015. At the end of 2015, the American multinational e-commerce company announced 304 million active customer accounts. In 2016, Amazon has not publically announced the number of total active accounts. However, during the first quarter of 2016 the company has stated the number of active Amazon customer accounts with a TTM paid purchase worldwide to have reached 285 million.Amazon is an American electronic commerce company that was originally founded in 1994 in Seattle, USA. Amazon is also recognized as the world’s largest online retailer. The company started off primarily selling books, but has since expanded its catalogue to clothing, electronics, music and many more goods. Amazon is also highly known for its Amazon Kindle e-book reader, which was first released in 1997. As of 2005, the company created Amazon Prime, a paid service, in which members were eligible for faster two-day or even one-day shipping on their orders and allowed for access to Amazon Instant Video, which is Amazon’s video streaming service. As of September 2016, 52 percent of the U.S. Amazon users were Amazon Prime subscribers.Amazon has seen significant growth to say the least over the past several years, often attracting customers who look for goods from brand names at more reasonable prices, often cutting out the extra cost of purchasing at a retailer. As a result, Amazon earned approximately 135 billion U.S. dollars in sales revenues in 2016, ranking first among leading publicly traded internet companies. Additionally, Amazon earned a net income of 2.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2016, an improvement over the preceding year's net income of 596 million U.S. dollars.

本统计数据显示了2007年至2015年全球活跃的亚马逊客户账户数量。至2015年底，这家美国跨国电子商务公司宣布拥有3.04亿活跃客户账户。2016年，亚马逊并未公开宣布总活跃账户数。然而，在2016年的第一季度，该公司表示，全球拥有TTM付费购买记录的活跃亚马逊客户账户数已达到2.85亿。亚马逊成立于1994年，总部位于美国西雅图，是一家著名的电子 commerce公司，亦被誉为全球最大的在线零售商。该公司最初主要销售书籍，但现已扩展其商品目录，涵盖服装、电子产品、音乐等多种商品。亚马逊还因其于1997年首次发布的Amazon Kindle电子书阅读器而广为人知。至2005年，该公司推出了Amazon Prime付费服务，会员可享受更快两天或甚至一天送货服务，并可访问亚马逊的流媒体服务——Amazon Instant Video。截至2016年9月，美国52%的亚马逊用户是Amazon Prime的订阅者。在过去几年中，亚马逊经历了显著的增长，常常吸引寻求以更合理价格购买品牌商品的顾客，通常还能省去在零售商处购买时的额外成本。因此，亚马逊在2016年的销售额约为1350亿美元，位列领先公开交易的互联网公司之首。此外，亚马逊在2016年的净收入为24亿美元，超过了前一年的5.96亿美元净收入。