Press release No. 039 of 31 January 2023
Retail turnover, annual result of 2022 (provisional, original values)
-0.6% in 2022 compared with 2021 (in real terms)
+7.8% in 2022 compared with 2021 (in nominal terms)
Retail turnover, December 2022 (provisional, calendar and seasonally adjusted)
-5.3% on the previous month (in real terms)
-4.8% on the previous month (in nominal terms)
-6.4% on the same month a year earlier (in real terms)
+4.2% on the same month a year earlier (in nominal terms)
WIESBADEN – In 2022, the real (price-adjusted) turnover of the retail enterprises in Germany was 0.6% lower, and the nominal (not price-adjusted) turnover 7.8% higher, than in the previous year, according to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). In the first half of 2022, real turnover was up 3.1% on the first half of 2021, whereas it was markedly down (-4.1%) year on year in the second half of 2022. The main reason for the real slump in turnover in 2022 probably was the marked increase in consumer prices of food and energy, for example. In addition, German retail trade enterprises had generated a record turnover in 2021.
