The global footprint of Delivery Hero

Every day, more than 10 million orders flow through Delivery Hero’s platforms, connecting consumers, restaurants, and riders across some 65 countries. But an order is rarely a single transaction: the rider earns income, the restaurant increases its revenue, suppliers see fresh demand, and the spending of those who work across these settings supports further jobs in the local economy. To understand the full scale of this ripple effect, Delivery Hero commissioned Cebr to quantify the global economic footprint of its ecosystem across July 2024 to June 2025.

More than the platform

To capture this impact, our analysis had to look beyond Delivery Hero itself. We set out to measure the full ecosystem the platform supports: its own operations, suppliers, the partner restaurants and shops trading through it, and the riders working across it – together with the demand each of these stimulates in the wider economy. Only by measuring all of them together, does the true economic reach of a single order become visible.

Measuring the full impact

To do this, we modelled 36 countries individually – making up Delivery Hero’s largest markets, which together account for the majority of total GDP contributions generated by the Delivery Hero ecosystem – and captured the remaining markets through regionally aggregated modelling, before combining the results into regional and global totals. For each, we measured three things: direct impacts, indirect impacts (the demand passed along domestic supply chains), and induced impacts (the further spending generated as that income flowed through the wider economy).

We estimated the initial, direct impacts of Delivery Hero, through detailed financial data that they shared for the purposes of the project. Wider indirect and induced impacts were estimated using in-house economic impact models for each modelled country. These allow us to capture how an initial order through the Delivery Hero platform has an economic impact that ripples across the economy. The approach was designed so that every part of the ecosystem could be added together into a single, global total, measured in terms of GDP impact, jobs supported, and tax contribution.

What the numbers show

The findings showed a substantial economic footprint. Across its ecosystem in 2024/2025, Delivery Hero contributed €62.7 billion to GDP globally, supported 2.5 million full-time-equivalent jobs, and provided €14.2 billion in tax revenues to countries it operates in. Furthermore, most of the value is supported elsewhere in the local economy, with 75% – equivalent to €47 billion in GDP – of the economic value flowing to local partners.

This footprint is a consequence of three reinforcing ways the ecosystem drives growth: by delivering orders and meeting demand efficiently; by helping partner businesses expand, reinvest and strengthen their own supply chains; and by channelling the incomes it generates back into local spending and public revenues. Together, they generate an impact that reaches far beyond the platform itself.

Region by region

Building the analysis region by region also made it possible to show how Delivery Hero’s impacts differ from one region to the next, and to quantify the benefit in each. Our analysis revealed Asia as the ecosystem’s largest contributor, accounting for over 40% of the total GDP impact, with €28.7 billion in added GDP, alongside almost €5 million in tax contributions, and over 1 million jobs supported.

In contrast, the European ecosystem is the strongest amplifier, where every €1 of direct value supports an additional €3.63 across the economy. In the Americas, the ecosystem’s strength lies in partner-led job creation: every 100 jobs supported through partners sustain more than 130 across the wider economy.

The Middle Eastern ecosystem is a major source of employment, supporting close to 7 in every 1,000 of all jobs in its operating markets. And in Africa, the platform’s relative impact is highest of any region, every 100 direct roles support roughly 925 further jobs across the wider economy.

Quantifying these differences is what turns a single global figure into evidence of the specific benefit Delivery Hero brings to each region it operates in.

Concluding thoughts

Taken together, the analysis turns a familiar everyday act, placing an order, into a measurable economic story. What can look like a simple transaction supported €62.7 billion in GDP, 2.5 million full-time-equivalent jobs and €14.2 billion in tax. The value of Delivery Hero goes beyond just being a digital platform, but in the income, employment and activity that ripple outward because of it.

This collaboration with Delivery Hero is another example of how Cebr’s independent analysis quantifies the economic impact organisations have and the benefits they bring to the countries they operate in. By combining data analysis with rigorous economic modelling, we help clients turn data into clear and quantified impacts.

If you are interested in an economic impact report, or learning more about our approach, click here.

Additionally, for the full report on Delivery Hero’s global economic impact, follow this link: https://deliveryheroimpact.com/