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Singles’ Day is the world’s biggest shopping event, and Black Friday is just around the corner. Holiday shopping is a major driver of retail and ecommerce around the world, but spending and which holidays drive the most activity vary by region.

This eMarketer StatPack lays out statistics around the major shopping holidays in Asia-Pacific that drive shopping in similar ways as Western holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. In China, Japan and Indonesia, Singles’ Day drives ecommerce activity in November. Indonesia also has a holiday in Q4 known as Harbolnas. India celebrates the gift-giving holiday of Diwali in the fall. South Korea’s Q4 holiday shopping centers around the recently launched “Korea Sale Festa,” while Australia has a November “Click Frenzy” sales day that fuels ecommerce holiday shopping.