Press release No. 569 of 13 December 2021
Wholesale selling prices, November 2021
+1.3% on the previous month
+16.6% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN –In November 2021 the selling prices in wholesale trade rose by 16.6% compared with November 2020. There has not been a higher annual rate of change since the beginning of the calculation of the wholesale price indices in 1962. In October 2021 and in September 2021 the annual rates of change had been +15.2% and +13.2%, respectively.
From October 2021 to November 2021 the index rose by 1.3%.
The high rates of change for wholesale prices in annual comparison derive from increased prices for raw materials and intermediate products. The largest impact on the year-on-year price rate in wholesale trade had the increased prices for mineral oil products (+62.4%).
Crisis monitor allows comparison between corona crisis and financial and economic crisis
The index of the wholesale prices is also part of the "Crisis monitor", 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, which has provided statistical information on the economic and social consequences of the corona pandemic since early April 2020.
More detailed data and long time series are available in table Index of wholesale prices (61281-0002 and 61281-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.
