⚡ Payments in Ethiopia

Online payment services allow businesses to securely accept and process transactions by supporting a variety of payment methods such as credit and debit cards, digital wallets, and Buy Now, Pay Later options.

Ethiopia is an East African country with a population of over 127 million people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 3% of websites from Ethiopia.

Statistics based on 230 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top payment services on websites in Ethiopia in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is PayPal with a substantial share of 71.4%, followed by Mastercard with 42.9% and Visa with 14.3%.

PayPal 71.4%
Mastercard 42.9%
Visa 14.3%
Wise 14.3%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in Ethiopia than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. Mastercard ^(-3)
3. Visa ^(-1)
4. Wise ^(-60)

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of 4 payment services used on sites from Ethiopia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	PayPal San Jose, California, United States An online payment service that allows users to send funds from a credit card, bank account, or PayPal balance to merchants without sharing their financial details. $$$	71.4%
2	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	42.9%
3	Visa San Francisco, California, United States A global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.	14.3%
4	Wise London, United Kingdom A money services business provider that specializes in international payments, currency conversion, and multi-currency account services for individuals and businesses, using exchange rates based on the mid-market rate and clearly disclosed fees.	14.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Payments in other countries
- Angola
- Egypt
- Kenya

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 230 websites from Ethiopia.
We currently track the presence of 136 payment services across the web.
Of these, 4 were detected on websites from Ethiopia.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.