Press release No. 060 of 11 February 2021
Wholesale selling prices, January 2021
2.1% on the previous month
0.0% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the selling prices in wholesale trade in January 2021 remained unchanged in comparison with the corresponding month of the preceding year. In December 2020 and in November 2020 the annual rates of change had been -1.2% and -1.7%, respectively.
From December 2020 to January 2021 the index rose by 2.1%. This was the highest increase of a monthly rate of change since March 1974 (+3.0%).
Crisis Monitor allows comparison between corona crisis and and financial and economic crisis
The wholesale prices are also part of the "Crisis Monitor" (www.destatis.de/krisenmonitor), which is used by the Federal Statistical Office to compare the development of major short-term indicators between the corona crisis and the financial and economic crisis of 2008/2009. The "Crisis monitor" complements the "Corona statistics" webpage (www.destatis.de/corona), which provides statistical information on the economic and social consequences of the corona pandemic.
More detailed data and long time series are available in table Index of wholesale prices (61281-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.
