Shopify dropshipping volume by service 2017-2021

Since 2017, dropshipping services have flourished among Shopify stores. Although a significant amount of listing and fulfillment is still achieved manually, i. e. without software, the listed dropshipping services showed an increasing trend when it comes to number of products. Oberlo showed a striking increase with 348 products dropshipped in 2017 and 50,147 in 2021.

Number of dropshipped products on Shopify stores from 2017 to 2021, by service

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2021

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2017 to 2021

Special properties

cumulative figures*

Supplementary notes

* The product volume in a given year adds up the number of products dropshipped in previous years. The figure for 2017 includes the dropshipping volume of previous years.
** As of April 14, 2021.
A sample of 3.5 million products from over 300 thousand shops was randomly chosen and analyzed, based on data for more than 600 thousand shops across various dropshipping services.
The term "Dropshipping products" indicates the products which are fulfilled through the Shopify's third-party fulfillment service API or from a Shopify application. Manually dropshipped products by retailers are not included as dropshipping products.

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