Press release No. 051 of 8 February 2022
Wholesale turnover, January to November 2021 (provisional, unadjusted values)
+2.4% on the same period a year earlier (in real terms)
+9.8% on the same period a year earlier (in nominal terms)
Annual result of 2021 (estimate, provisional, unadjusted values)
+2.5% in 2021 compared with 2020 (in real terms)
+10.3% in 2021 compared with 2020 (in nominal terms)
WIESBADEN – According to an estimate of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), turnover in wholesale trade in Germany recorded a new record high in 2021. The real (price-adjusted) turnover in wholesale trade was 2.5% higher and the nominal (not price-adjusted) turnover was 10.3% higher in 2021 compared with 2020, the year with the highest turnover ever recorded. Compared with 2019, the year before Covid, turnover was up by 4.4% in real terms. The development in wholesale trade thus was similar to that in retail trade, which recorded a new record high in 2021, too.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Turnover in wholesale trade (45211-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.
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