How digital trade is reshaping the global economy

Digital exports are creating growth opportunities for all businesses—regardless of location—by removing and reducing barriers to cross-border buying and selling. Digital exports are digital goods and services, as well as physical goods, sold via digital channels.

For our new report, we analyzed international business and consumer sentiment surveys, as well as transaction data on Stripe, to identify emerging trends in the global digital economy.
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Digital trade report

Key trends reshaping the digital economy

Digital exports provide a way for companies to scale their total addressable market exponentially, laying the groundwork for future growth. As a driver of globalization, digital exports are transforming the global economy in three core ways:
  • Creating unexpected optimism from businesses and consumers about the prospects of the globalized economy: 66% of businesses plan to expand into other countries within the next two years
  • Creating more diversified international trade routes: 50% of businesses think it is easier today to run an international business than it was five years ago
  • Creating greater access to the global economy for every kind of business and industry: Offline industries–such as education–are transforming due to digital exports: 88% of education businesses sell internationally today, and 70% plan to expand further internationally in the next two years

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