Press release No. 123 of 15 March 2021
Wholesale selling prices, February 2021
+1.4% on the previous month
+2.3% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – In February 2021 the selling prices in wholesale trade rose by 2.3% compared with February 2020. In January 2021 and in December 2020 the annual rates of change had been 0.0% and -1.2%, respectively.
From January 2021 to February 2021 the index rose by 1.4%.
Crisis Monitor allows comparison between corona crisis and financial and economic crisis
The index of the wholesale prices are also part of the "Crisis Monitor" (www.destatis.de/krisenmonitor), 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 (www.destatis.de/corona), which provides statistical information on the economic and social consequences of the corona pandemic.
More detailed data and long time series are available in table Index of wholesale prices (61281-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.
