Press release No. 465 of 1 October 2021
Retail turnover, August 2021 (provisional, calendar and seasonally adjusted)
+1.1% on the previous month (in real terms)
+1.2% on the previous month (in nominal terms)
+0.4% on the same month a year earlier (in real terms)
+2.3% on the same month a year earlier (in nominal terms)
WIESBADEN – According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the real (price-adjusted) turnover of all retail enterprises in Germany was 1.1% higher and the nominal (not price-adjusted) turnover was 1.2% higher, on a calendar and seasonally adjusted basis, in August 2021 than in July 2021. Retail turnover in real terms was up by 6.0% in August 2021 on the pre-crisis month of February 2020. Compared with August 2020, turnover increased by 0.4% in real terms and by 2.3% in nominal terms in August 2021.
Crisis Monitor enables comparison between corona crisis and financial and economic crisis
Retail turnover also forms part of the “Crisis Monitor“ (www.destatis.de/krisenmonitor), by means of which the Federal Statistical Office compares the development of major short-term indicators in 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 coronavirus pandemic.
