Despite the domestic e-commerce market reaching an estimated value of $31 billion in 2025, placing Việt Nam among the world’s top 10 and top three in ASEAN, total import-export turnover via e-commerce stood at just $4.45 billion.
Leading e-commerce platform Shopee has announced a strategic partnership with local authorities to drive forward e-commerce development plans, supporting local businesses in expanding their distribution channels for homegrown products.
Following a decade of strong growth in users, products and transaction volumes, major platforms are gradually retreating from the cash-burning strategy which had been previously used widely to compete for market share.
According to YouNet ECI, total gross merchandise volume (GMV) across Shopee, TikTok Shop, Tiki and Lazada reached VNĐ458.2 trillion (US$17.6 billion) last year, marking a 26 per cent year-on-year gain.
Metric, an intelligent data integration and analytics platform, has just released online shopping indicators for the Tết (Lunar New Year) season, reporting impressive figures.
About 60 per cent of participants in a survey by Worldpanel by Numerator Vietnam said they would reduce expenses on non-essential products, reflecting a trend towards cautious and proactive consumption to balance the family budget.
Smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods continued to grow more complex, larger in scale and wider in scope, particularly on e-commerce platforms and in cyberspace.
Most of Việt Nam’s major postal and express delivery operators recorded a strong on-time delivery performance in 2025, according to a new assessment released recently by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
The four largest e-commerce platforms, namely Shopee, TikTok Shop, Lazada and Tiki, generated total sales revenues of VNĐ429 trillion in 2025, up nearly 34.8 per cent over 2024. This represents a figure of over VNĐ1.17 trillion (US$44.5 million) per day.
Between 2020 and 2025, authorities nationwide detected and handled about 120,000 - 190,000 cases of smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods each year with trade fraud accounting for the largest share of around 79-88 per cent.
Việt Nam’s e-commerce market is projected to reach approximately US$31 billion in 2025, marking a year-on-year increase of 25.5 per cent and accounting for 10 per cent of the country’s total retail sales of goods and services.