Press release No. 006 of 6 January 2023
Retail turnover, annual result of 2022 (estimate, provisional, unadjusted values)
-0.3% in 2022 compared with 2021 (in real terms)
+8.2% in 2022 compared with 2021 (in nominal terms)
Retail turnover, November 2022 (provisional, calendar and seasonally adjusted)
+1.1% on the previous month (in real terms)
+1.3% on the previous month (in nominal terms)
-5.9% on the same month a year earlier (in real terms)
+4.8% on the same month a year earlier (in nominal terms)
WIESBADEN – According to an estimate of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the real (price-adjusted) retail turnover in Germany was 0.3% lower in 2022 than in the record year of 2021, while the nominal (not price-adjusted) turnover was 8.2% higher. The difference between the results in real and nominal terms reflects Inflation rate at +10.0% in November 2022 in retail trade. 2021 saw the highest annual turnover ever achieved since the start of the time series. In that year, turnover grew a real 0.8% on 2020 and 5.6% on 2019.
