Press release No. 099 of 4 March 2021
Wholesale turnover, fourth quarter 2020 (provisional)
+4.7% on the same quarter a year earlier (in real terms)
+2.9% on the same quarter a year earlier (in nominal terms)
Wholesale turnover, year 2020 (provisional)
+1.8% on the previous year (in real terms)
-0.4% on the previous year (in nominal terms)
WIESBADEN – According to provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the turnover of wholesale trade in Germany in 2020 was in real terms 1.8% higher and in nominal terms 0.4% lower than in 2019.
In the 4th quarter of 2020, the wholesale companies had a real 4.7% and nominal 2.9% increase in volume of sales compared to the 4th quarter of 2019. The wholesale of raw materials, semi-finished goods and machines (production related trade), an indicator for industrial production and export, increased in the 4th quarter of 2020 by 5.7% in real terms and 1.6% in nominal terms compared to the same period in the previous year. In addition, wholesale with consumable goods (consumption related trade) had a gain of 3.4% (in real terms) and 4.0% (in nominal terms) compared to the 4th quarter of 2019.
The wholesale companies in Germany reached in December 2020 calendar and seasonally adjusted 4.0% more turnover in real terms (adjusted for prices) and 4.6% more turnover in nominal terms (not adjusted for prices) compared to the previous month.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Turnover in wholesale trade (45211-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.
