Amazon Statistics, User Demographics, and Fun Facts in 2020

Amazon Company Facts

Website: https://www.amazon.com/

Founded: 1994

Headquarter: Seattle, WA

CEO: Jeff Bezos

Amazon Employees Stats

Number of employees: 840,000 (Worldwide) 590,000 (US)

Number of robot employees: 200,000

Amazon Users Demographics Statistics

Total users: 6+ Million

Active users: 310+ Million

Primer users: 150+ Million

1 in every 4 adults in US has Amazon Prime.

Amazon Subsidiaries

Amazon own a lot of subsidiaries, but most prominent ones are:

1. Amazon Web Services
2. Whole Foods Market
3. Twitch
4. Audible
5. IMDB
6. Zappos

Market Share Stats

US e-commerce market share is at 38%. (source)

Categories with more than 90% market shares:

• Home Improvement Tools - 93%
• Skin Care - 91%
• Batteries - 97%
• Golf - 92%
• Kitchen and Dinning - 94%

Amazon Revenues

1st quarter: $51.04 Billion

2nd quarter: $52.89 Billion

3rd quarter: yet to file

Nearly 50% of Amazon's revenue comes from third party sellers. (source)

Amazon Market Valuation

Current Market Valuation: $1.3 Trillion

Amazon is the second company to reach Trillion dollar market valuation after Apple.

Amazon Demographics

• Female shoppers 51.1%.
• Blue Collar Shoppers 57.4%.
• Shoppers with Family 54.7%.
• Bachelors Degree Shoppers 34.5%.
• Graduate Degree Shoppers 27.4%.
• Married 45.9%.
• Shoopers have incomes greater than $100,000.
• Home owners 80%.
• Shoppers tend research products before buying.
• All shoppers tend to shop elsewhere are over age 45. (source)

Amazon Fun Facts

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• Amazon was originally named Cadabra as in "Abracadabra."
• Entire United States can be covered in cardboard by five months of Amazon shipped boxes.
• If you type in relentless.com on the browser, it will go to Amazon.com.
• First book ever sold at Amazon was called Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Doug Hofstadte.
• In early days,a literal bell was rung everytime a purchase was made in Amazon.
• There are 6,000 dogs sharing work space at Amazon.
• A door became a desk and a symbol of Amazon.
• Daughter of an Amazonian loves to read, but he found a few books with minority characters. So he ended writing a book.
• There are a lot of weird products in Amazon such as Star Wars chopsticks, dog selfie tennis ball, Game of Thrones music box, and many more.
• Apple uses Amazon's 1-Click ordering technology.
• Mobile shopping was increased because of 1-Click.
• In early days, programming error could trick Amazon into crediting money to customers credit cards.
• Company lost $5.7 million when the website was down for 49 minutes.