Press release No. 259 of 2 June 2021
Wholesale turnover, 1st quarter of 2021 (provisional)
-1.2%, in real terms, on the same quarter a year earlier
+0.4%, in nominal terms, on the same quarter a year earlier
Wholesale turnover, March 2021 (provisional)
+4.4% on the previous month (in real terms, calendar and seasonally adjusted)
+6.2% on the previous month (in nominal terms, calendar and seasonally adjusted)
+6.1%, in real terms, on the same month a year earlier
+9.8%, in nominal terms, on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the real (price-adjusted) turnover of all wholesale enterprises in Germany was 1.2% lower, on a calendar and seasonally adjusted basis, in the 1st quarter of 2021 compared with the 1st quarter of 2020, while the nominal (not price-adjusted) turnover was 0.4% higher. Compared with the 4th quarter of 2019, the quarter before the coronavirus pandemic broke out in Germany, turnover in the 1st quarter of 2021 was down by 3.0% in real terms and by 1.2% in nominal terms.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Turnover in wholesale trade (45211-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.
