The chart provides data on the percentage of businesses that make purchases via the Internet by 5 various industries in Canada from 2015 to 2019.
Overall, it is obvious that that information&communications industry made the largest amount of purchases over the years. What is more, the year of 2015 was the less full with e-commerce.
The graph shows that the most stable growth is seen in wholesale with 40% and barely 60% in 2015 and 2019, respectively. What is more, the same situation is shown in constriction with a little more rapid progress from approximately 20% in 2015 and 55% in 2019. In 2015, retail and manufacturing were at the same point of more than 30%. Then, there was a dramatic growth by 2016 to about 50%. However, the percentage of e-commerce of manufacturing went down, whereas retail online purchases continued to increase. As for information&communications, it faced with a slight increase from 60% in 2015 to its highest peak with barely 75% in 2018. After that, there amount of online purchases fell down to less than 70% in 2019.
