Wholesale und retail trade

Topics Economy

€ 2.52 tn turnover in trade

6.4 mn Employees in trade

537,521 Enterprise

Press releases

2 May 2023 Retail turnover in real terms down 2.4% in March 2023 on the previous month

According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the real (price-adjusted) turnover of all retail enterprises in Germany declined by 2.4% and the nominal (not price-adjusted) turnover by 1.3%, on a calendar and seasonally adjusted basis, in March 2023 from February 2023. Compared with March 2022, the retail trade recorded an 8.6% decrease in turnover in real terms and a nominal decline of 0.2%. The difference between the results in real and nominal terms reflects the significant price increases in retail trade. Compared with March 2019, the corresponding month before the Covid-19 pandemic, retail turnover in real terms decreased by 1.3% in March 2023.

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31 March 2023 Retail turnover in real terms down 1.3% in February 2023 on the previous month

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8 March 2023 Retail turnover in real terms down 0.3% in January 2023 on the previous month

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14 February 2023 Wholesale turnover in 2022 expected to be up 1.0% in real terms on 2021

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31 January 2023 2022 turnover in retail trade down a real 0.6% on 2021

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6 January 2023 Retail turnover in 2022 expected to be down 0.3% in real terms on 2021

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Further Press Releases

Current news

Publication of monthly statistics in the trade and service sectors recommences

On 8 October 2024, the Federal Statistical Office has resumed its regular publication of short-term statistics for trade and services with a release of calendar and seasonally adjusted results of wholesale trade turnover in the reference month of July 2024 and on October 10 with a release of calendar and seasonally adjusted results of retail trade turnover in the reference month of August 2024.

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New structural statistics for trade and services

The structural survey of service activities has been conducted in conjunction with the annual survey of wholesale and retail trade and the annual survey of accommodation and food service activities since reference year 2021. The basis for the new structural statistics in the trade and service sectors is the EU Regulation on European business statistics, which was transposed into national law via the Trade and Services Statistics Act of 22 February 2021 (Federal Law Gazette I, page 266).

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Implementation of the EU enterprise definition in structural business statistics from reference year 2018

In structural business statistics, results for enterprises have been presented according to the EU enterprise definition - as specified by the EU Regulation on statistical units - since reference year 2018, the first year the new definition was applied.

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Economic and business indicators in the wholesale and retail trade, 2022

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Trade, accommodation and food service activities, services, 2022

Experimental statistics

In the "EXSTAT – Experimental statistics section" we regularly publish new and innovative project results of the Federal Statistical Office. These are obtained by using new data sources and methods. Both the degree of maturity and quality of the results differ from those of official statistics, especially regarding harmonisation, coverage and methodology. Nonetheless these results of the statistical offices of the Federation and the Länder offer new and interesting ways of looking at various statistical topics.

Selected articles from the EXSTAT series

Early indicator of short-term economic trends based on pedestrian frequencies

During the pandemic, there is a correlation between shop-based retail turnover and the number of pedestrians in inner cities. The Federal Statistical Office examines whether an early indicator of short-term economic trends can be developed on this basis in non-crisis times.

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Smart business cycle statistics based on satellite data

Satellites can provide images of large areas of the earth’s surface at short intervals. Technological progress has substantially influenced and improved the availability and analysis of satellite data so that they are coming into play also in official statistics.

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Ex­per­i­men­tal statis­tics