Press release No. 459 of 31 October 2022
Retail turnover, September 2022 (provisional, calendar and seasonally adjusted)
+0.9% on the previous month (in real terms)
+1.8% on the previous month (in nominal terms)
-0.9% on the same month a year earlier (in real terms)
+9.9% 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 retail enterprises in Germany was 0.9% and the nominal (not price-adjusted) turnover was 1.8% higher in September 2022 than in August 2022, on a calendar and seasonally adjusted basis. Compared with September 2021, retail trade recorded a 0.9% decrease in turnover in real terms and a nominal increase of 9.9% in September 2022. The difference between the results in real and nominal terms reflects the high price increases in retail trade. Compared with the all-year high of March 2022, retail turnover declined by 3.8% but was up by 3.2% from the pre-pandemic month of September 2019.
