Press Wholesale turnover in the year 2019: 2.0% in real terms larger than in the year 2018

Press release No. 075 of 5 March 2020

Wholesale turnover, fourth quarter 2019
+1.6% on the same month a year earlier (in real terms, provisional)
-0.3% on the same month a year earlier (in nominal terms, provisional)

Wholesale turnover, year 2019
+2.0% on the previous year (in real terms, provisional)
+1.7% on the previous year (in nominal terms, provisional)

WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the turnover achieved by wholesale trade in Germany in the year 2019 was in real terms 2.0% and in nominal terms 1.7% larger than that in the year 2018. The turnover in the fourth quarter 2019 was in real terms 3.1% and in nominal terms 2.2% larger than that in the fourth quarter 2018.

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In December 2019 turnover in wholesale trade was in real terms 5.0% and in nominal terms 3.3% higher than in the corresponding month of the previous year.

When adjusted for calendar and seasonal variations (X13 JDemetra+), the December 2019 turnover was in real terms 0.3% and in nominal terms 0.4% higher than in November 2019.

Basic data and long time series are available in table Turnover in wholesale trade (45211-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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