Mercadolibre’s Total Payment Volume (TPV) (2016-2023)

This statistic highlight shows Mercadolibre’s Total Payment Volume (TPV), reported on a quarterly basis from Q1 2016 onwards.

What is Total Payment Value (TPV)?

Total Payment Volume or TPV of a company is the value of payments that are completed through the Payments Platform and excludes the transactions processed through the company’s gateway products. Payment volume can be calculated by totaling the number of payment transactions executed by the recognized payment institution in the preceding financial year and dividing it by the number of months of that year.

Mercadolibre’s Total Payment Volume (TPV)

( All the figures are in billions)

The Total Payment Volume (TPV) of the company has witnessed minor fluctuations over all the quarters. On a year-on-year basis, the total payment volume of the company increased from $16.0 billion in Q4 2020 to $24.4 billion in Q4 2021, making a rise of 52.5%. Yearly growth of 57.14% can be seen between the second quarter of the year 2020 and 2021, where it grew from $11.2 billion in Q2 2020 to $17.6 billion in Q2 2021. Similarly, yearly growth of 43.15% can be seen between the third quarter of the year 2020 and 2021 where it grew from $14.6 billion in Q3 2020 to $20.9 billion in Q3 2021.

In the year 2020, the Total Payment Volume of the company has been rising continuously. It first increased from $8.1 billion in Q1 2020 to $11.2 billion in Q2 2020, making a growth of 38.27%. Further, it grew from $11.2 billion in Q2 2020 to $14.6 billion in Q3 2020, witnessing an increment of 30.35%. It continued to grow from $14.6 billion in Q3 2020 to $16 billion in Q4 2020, showing an increment of 9.59% on a quarterly basis. However between Q4 2020 and Q1 2021, the total payment volume declined from $16 billion in Q4 2020 to $14.8 billion in Q1 2021, making a fall of 7.5%.

In the year 2021, the Total Payment Volume witnessed an upward trend. It witnessed a slight rise of 18.9% on a quarter-on-quarter basis, from $14.8 billion in Q1 2021 to $17.6 billion in Q2 2021. Further, it increased from $17.6 billion in Q2 2021 to $20.9 billion in Q3 2021, making an increment of 18.75%. On a quarter-on-quarter, this increase in Total Payment Volume continued, rising from $20.9 billion in Q3 2021 to $24.4 billion in Q4 2021, marking a rise of 16.75%.

In Q1 2016, the Total Payment Volume of the company stood at $1.37 billion.Ever since then, the Total Payment Volume has been majorly increasing with few quarters of downfalls. From Q1 2016 to Q4 2021, the Total Payment Volume of Mercadolibre has witnessed a huge jump from $1.37 billion in Q1 2016 to $24.4 billion in Q4 2021. This depicts a massive increment of 1,681% in a period of 6 years.

Mercadolibre, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is Latin America’s leading e-commerce technology company. Through its various platforms, it offers solutions to individuals and companies for advertising, buying, selling, and paying for goods online. The company serves billions of users and forms a market for a wide variety of goods and services in an easy, safe and efficient way. Mercadolibre is the most important online commerce ecosystem in Latin America supported by unique active users, and they are present in 18 countries: Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, and many more.

The company platform is meant to supply users with an entire portfolio of services to facilitate commercial transactions, both digitally and offline. Through the e-commerce platform, the company supplies buyers and sellers with a strong and safe environment that fosters the event of an outsized e-commerce community in Latin America, a neighborhood with a population of over 646 million people and with one among the fastest-growing Internet penetration and e-commerce growth rates within the world. The company believes that it will provide world-class technological and commercial solutions that address the distinctive cultural and geographic challenges of operating a digital commerce platform in Latin America. The common stock of the company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “MELI” and is a component of the NASDAQ 100. It is also listed on the B3 stock exchange under the symbol “MELI34”.

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