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Temu, Shein & AliExpress Browsing Reach by Age Group in Germany — 2025 to Q1 2026

Results as of

Review Q1 2025 – Q1 2026: Every age group increased its Asian platform browsing rate in Germany, with the sharpest rise recorded among 35–54-year-olds across the 2025–Q1 2026 period

Temu, Shein & AliExpress Browsing Reach by Age Group in Germany — 2025 to Q1 2026Line chart showing the quarterly share of German browsing-panel users per age group who visited Temu, Shein, or AliExpress at least once, from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026. Multiple age-group lines track diverging adoption trajectories across the five quarters.Line chart showing the quarterly share of German browsing-panel users per age group who visited Temu, Shein, or AliExpress at least once, from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026. Multiple age-group lines track diverging adoption trajectories across the five quarters.
Line chart showing the quarterly share of German browsing-panel users per age group who visited Temu, Shein, or AliExpress at least once, from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026. Multiple age-group lines track diverging adoption trajectories across the five quarters.
Info
Sample size
n = 14,450
Data date
Q1 2025 – Q1 2026
Segment
All segments
Platform
Browsing
Market
Germany

Analysis

The broad age reach of Temu, Shein, and AliExpress in Germany debunks the notion that Chinese e-commerce platforms are a niche of young or budget-constrained shoppers — adoption grew across every tracked cohort from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026.

Beyond Gen Z: Middle-aged Germans join the trend

While the youngest groups showed high baseline reach consistent with Shein's Gen Z heritage, the fastest proportional growth appeared in older age brackets — a pattern that mirrors Germany becoming Shein's fastest-growing major EU market in absolute user numbers. Research from the Nürnberg Institut für Marktentscheidungen found that roughly half of German consumers had already shopped on Temu, Shein, or similar platforms by late 2025, with income level showing almost no predictive power over adoption. Temu's gamification mechanics and broad product range — spanning electronics, home goods, and apparel — appear to pull in demographics well beyond fashion-focused younger shoppers. The overall session intensity driving this reach is detailed in the monthly session share trend.

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Methodology

The chart measures the quarterly share of German online shoppers in each age group who visited at least one Asian e-commerce platform — Temu, Shein, or AliExpress — from Q1 2025 through Q1 2026. Each data point reflects unique visitors to any of the three platforms as a share of all active browsing users in that age group with a known birth year for the quarter. The panel included roughly 8,400 age-identified users in Q1 2025, growing to approximately 14,450 by Q1 2026.

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