Press release No. 182 of 13 April 2021
Wholesale selling prices, March 2021
+1.7% on the previous month
+4.4% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – In March 2021 the selling prices in wholesale trade rose by 4.4% compared with March 2020. In February 2021 the annual rate of change had been 2.3%, in January 2021 the index had not changed compared with January 2020.
From February 2021 to March 2021 the index rose by 1.7%.
Crisis Monitor allows comparison between corona crisis and financial and economic crisis
The index of 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.
