Press release No. 258 of 2 June 2021
Retail turnover, April 2021 (provisional)
-5.5% on the previous month (in real terms, calendar and seasonally adjusted)
-5.4% on the previous month (in nominal terms, calendar and seasonally adjusted)
+4.4% on the same month a year earlier (in real terms)
+5.8% 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 all retail enterprises in Germany was 5.5% lower and the nominal (not price-adjusted) turnover was 5.4% lower, on a calendar and seasonally adjusted basis, in April 2021 than in March 2021. The federal emergency brake in the second half of April and the Easter business in March 2021 are very likely to have been the main reasons for this development. In March 2021, a strong month-on-month increase in turnover (a calendar and seasonally adjusted real +7.7% and nominal +7.6%) had been recorded.
Crisis Monitor enables comparison between corona crisis and financial and economic crisis
Retail turnover also forms part of the “Crises monitor“ (www.destatis.de/krisenmonitor), by means of which the Federal Statistical Office compares the development of major short-term indicators in the corona crisis and the financial and economic crisis of 2008/2009. The Crises monitor complements the "Corona statistics" webpage (www.destatis.de/corona), which has provided statistical information on the economic and social consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.
