Volume of retail trade down by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.1% in the EU

Overview

In June 2024, compared with May 2024, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume decreased by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.1% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

In May 2024, retail trade volume grew by 0.1% in both the euro area and the EU.

In June 2024 compared with June 2023, the calendar adjusted retail sales index decreased by 0.3% in the euro area and increased by 0.1% in the EU.

Retail trade volume

Monthly comparison by retail sector and by Member State

In the euro area in June 2024, compared with May 2024, the volume of retail trade

decreased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.7%,
decreased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.1%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.5%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

decreased for food, drinks, tobacco by 1.0%,
remained stable for non-food products (except automotive fuel),
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.6%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the largest monthly decreases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Croatia (-2.7%), Austria (-2.3%), Latvia and Lithuania (both -1.7%). The highest increases were observed in Romania (+1.8%), Bulgaria (+1.4%) and Denmark (+1.0%).

Annual comparison by retail sector and by Member State

In the euro area in June 2024, compared with June 2023, the volume of retail trade

decreased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.7%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.3%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.3%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

decreased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.5%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.7%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.5%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest annual increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Romania (+10.2%), Luxembourg (+7.9%) and Croatia (+5.4%). The largest decreases were observed in Belgium (-7.3%), Estonia (-4.1%) and Austria (-3.9%).

Tables

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	Jan-24	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24
Euro area
Total retail trade	0.0	-0.2	0.7	-0.1	0.1	-0.3
Food, drinks, tobacco	0.3	-0.2	1.0	-0.9	1.0	-0.7
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	0.3	0.5	-0.2	0.7	-0.3	-0.1
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	0.5	-1.1	0.9	-0.7	0.3	0.5
EU
Total retail trade	0.2	0.0	0.5	-0.2	0.1	-0.1
Food, drinks, tobacco	0.4	-0.2	0.9	-1.3	1.4	-1.0
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	0.5	0.4	-0.2	0.8	-0.4	0.0
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	0.3	0.0	0.4	-0.7	-0.2	0.6
* Calendar and seasonally adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	Jan-24	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24
Euro area	0.0	-0.2	0.7	-0.1	0.1	-0.3
EU	0.2	0.0	0.5	-0.2	0.1	-0.1
Belgium	-0.7	-1.9	0.4	-0.5	0.4	-1.2
Bulgaria	0.8	0.4	0.1	1.3	-0.4	1.4
Czechia	1.4	-0.3	1.3	0.0	0.0	c
Denmark	-1.8	1.4	0.0	-2.9	2.2	1.0
Germany**	-0.3	-1.5	2.7	-0.2	:	:
Estonia	-1.7	0.6	0.1	-0.9	-0.7	-0.9
Ireland	0.2	0.0	-0.1	0.1	-0.2	-0.7
Greece	-6.1	0.7	6.5	-5.4	10.6	c
Spain	-0.5	0.6	-0.5	0.8	-0.5	0.3
France	0.8	0.5	-0.4	0.0	-0.1	-0.2
Croatia	0.5	0.8	0.5	0.7	0.6	-2.7
Italy	0.2	0.0	0.1	-0.2	0.0	-0.1
Cyprus	1.8	-1.9	2.2	-1.1	1.7	0.1
Latvia	-1.3	0.4	0.8	-2.7	0.1	-1.7
Lithuania	0.8	0.8	1.6	-1.3	2.1	-1.7
Luxembourg	1.0	2.9	1.4	1.1	-1.7	0.6
Hungary	0.1	-0.3	1.9	-1.0	0.1	-0.2
Malta	0.0	0.8	-1.1	1.2	-0.4	-0.6
Netherlands	1.2	0.7	-0.5	-1.6	0.6	-1.4
Austria	1.0	0.3	-0.8	1.7	-0.3	-2.3
Poland	1.8	0.7	-1.0	-0.9	-0.4	-0.2
Portugal	-0.2	0.4	-0.1	2.1	0.5	0.7
Romania	4.6	-0.3	1.0	0.6	-0.3	1.8
Slovenia	-1.6	-0.3	1.6	0.6	-0.9	-1.0
Slovakia	-1.3	0.9	-0.7	2.3	-1.1	-1.1
Finland	0.2	0.2	0.9	-1.4	2.3	-1.2
Sweden	0.1	2.8	-2.3	0.2	0.5	-1.0
Norway	0.0	0.1	0.3	-0.5	4.7	-5.1
Switzerland	0.7	0.0	-0.3	0.1	-0.2	-0.1
* Calendar and seasonally adjusted ** The publication of German data is delayed due to the changeover to new data requirements. : Data not available c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the same month of the previous year*
	Jan-24	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24
Euro area
Total retail trade	-0.7	-0.3	0.6	0.7	0.5	-0.3
Food, drinks, tobacco	-1.3	-1.2	1.0	-0.3	0.5	-0.7
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	-0.7	0.7	0.8	1.3	0.7	0.3
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	0.6	-1.4	-1.0	1.1	0.2	0.3
EU
Total retail trade	-0.5	0.2	1.3	0.4	0.7	0.1
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.8	-0.5	1.3	-0.1	0.9	-0.5
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	-0.5	1.1	1.8	0.8	0.9	0.7
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-0.5	-1.0	-1.0	0.9	-0.3	0.5
* Calendar adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the same month of the previous year*
	Jan-24	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24
Euro area	-0.7	-0.3	0.6	0.7	0.5	-0.3
EU	-0.5	0.2	1.3	0.4	0.7	0.1
Belgium	-3.8	-6.8	-4.6	-5.8	-5.2	-7.3
Bulgaria	-0.1	3.1	0.4	9.8	1.6	4.4
Czechia	3.3	2.5	5.8	5.7	4.5	c
Denmark	0.7	2.1	2.7	-1.8	-0.6	1.7
Germany**	-1.2	-2.3	1.0	0.3	:	:
Estonia	-6.7	-3.5	-2.3	-4.9	-4.0	-4.1
Ireland	1.2	1.1	1.5	0.9	-0.7	-0.3
Greece	-9.3	-9.5	5.3	-6.2	10.5	c
Spain	0.3	1.8	0.6	0.5	0.1	0.3
France	0.5	1.6	0.6	2.8	1.8	0.4
Croatia	7.9	9.1	8.9	8.6	8.4	5.4
Italy	-2.6	-0.6	-1.3	-1.0	-0.8	-0.9
Cyprus	6.1	0.6	5.0	1.9	3.8	3.9
Latvia	-1.3	-0.5	2.9	0.1	0.6	-2.0
Lithuania	-0.7	2.6	6.2	2.4	5.7	3.1
Luxembourg	10.2	16.6	17.7	20.3	10.6	7.9
Hungary	0.6	1.7	4.1	3.2	3.7	2.6
Malta	1.5	4.6	-0.9	4.0	1.4	-1.0
Netherlands	0.9	2.5	3.2	1.3	1.9	-2.3
Austria	-2.1	-1.0	-1.8	1.8	1.0	-3.9
Poland	-1.6	2.2	8.2	-7.3	-0.8	-0.8
Portugal	0.2	1.2	0.9	1.9	2.9	3.3
Romania	7.5	7.4	5.7	9.9	6.1	10.2
Slovenia	-2.0	-4.4	-1.7	1.2	-0.6	-0.1
Slovakia	1.7	4.1	1.3	8.6	5.3	1.6
Finland	-2.8	-2.4	0.6	-3.6	1.1	0.1
Sweden	-3.1	2.4	0.0	-0.1	1.2	-0.3
Norway	-1.1	-0.3	0.7	0.9	3.5	-3.0
Switzerland	0.1	-0.3	-0.2	2.4	-0.2	-2.2
* Calendar adjusted ** The publication of German data is delayed due to the changeover to new data requirements. : Data not available c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar and seasonally adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	Jan-24	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24
Euro area	99.0	98.8	99.5	99.4	99.5	99.2
EU	99.5	99.5	100.0	99.8	99.9	99.8
Belgium	86.3	84.7	85.0	84.6	84.9	83.9
Bulgaria	107.4	107.8	107.9	109.3	108.9	110.4
Czechia	94.6	94.3	95.5	95.5	95.5	c
Denmark	92.7	94.0	94.0	91.3	93.3	94.2
Germany*	95.7	94.3	96.8	96.6	:	:
Estonia	90.7	91.2	91.3	90.5	89.9	89.1
Ireland	101.9	101.9	101.8	101.9	101.7	101.0
Greece	94.9	95.6	101.8	96.3	106.5	c
Spain	104.7	105.3	104.8	105.6	105.1	105.4
France	102.3	102.8	102.4	102.4	102.3	102.1
Croatia	109.9	110.8	111.3	112.1	112.8	109.7
Italy	97.5	97.5	97.6	97.4	97.4	97.3
Cyprus	113.7	111.5	114.0	112.8	114.7	114.8
Latvia	102.6	103.0	103.8	101.0	101.1	99.4
Lithuania	100.7	101.5	103.1	101.8	103.9	102.1
Luxembourg	112.6	115.9	117.5	118.8	116.8	117.5
Hungary	98.7	98.4	100.3	99.3	99.4	99.2
Malta	112.6	113.5	112.2	113.6	113.1	112.4
Netherlands	101.1	101.8	101.3	99.7	100.3	98.9
Austria	95.0	95.3	94.5	96.1	95.8	93.6
Poland	108.3	109.1	108.0	107.0	106.6	106.4
Portugal	106.7	107.1	107.0	109.2	109.7	110.5
Romania	113.4	113.1	114.2	114.9	114.6	116.7
Slovenia	97.8	97.5	99.1	99.7	98.8	97.8
Slovakia	100.8	101.7	101.0	103.3	102.2	101.1
Finland	91.9	92.1	92.9	91.6	93.7	92.6
Sweden	92.8	95.4	93.2	93.4	93.9	93.0
Norway	92.0	92.1	92.4	91.9	96.2	91.3
Switzerland	98.9	98.9	98.6	98.7	98.5	98.4
* The publication of German data is delayed due to the changeover to new data requirements. : Data not available c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	Jan-24	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24
Euro area	93.0	87.8	97.9	96.1	99.4	99.6
EU	92.7	88.1	98.6	96.9	100.2	100.3
Belgium	84.0	74.8	84.5	83.2	86.8	86.9
Bulgaria	98.5	96.5	104.3	108.3	106.4	109.9
Czechia	85.1	81.3	92.9	91.3	96.1	c
Denmark	85.4	81.9	92.2	90.7	98.2	97.0
Germany*	88.1	85.1	98.5	96.2	:	:
Estonia	81.2	77.6	90.8	87.3	93.5	91.5
Ireland	94.3	95.1	93.1	98.0	96.3	98.1
Greece	85.8	89.1	95.7	93.1	103.9	c
Spain	104.1	92.0	101.3	101.2	104.2	107.2
France	97.7	90.9	99.8	99.3	100.4	102.2
Croatia	89.2	88.7	102.6	106.8	113.4	118.5
Italy	91.5	87.1	94.1	88.2	97.4	97.4
Cyprus	102.5	97.0	109.4	109.1	111.9	115.9
Latvia	91.5	87.9	100.9	98.0	104.4	101.5
Lithuania	90.0	87.3	101.1	99.9	108.3	104.4
Luxembourg	108.3	107.9	122.4	117.8	113.3	114.4
Hungary	85.6	85.2	98.3	95.5	99.3	100.8
Malta	101.8	100.3	107.7	110.6	117.3	112.7
Netherlands	95.8	89.2	100.5	98.4	104.6	101.2
Austria	86.8	85.7	96.8	97.5	94.8	93.7
Poland	97.4	96.8	111.7	107.7	107.6	106.6
Portugal	98.0	92.6	102.7	102.3	107.9	106.0
Romania	100.4	97.6	110.6	113.6	114.0	115.3
Slovenia	89.5	85.2	100.7	99.3	98.0	100.0
Slovakia	91.6	92.9	102.9	101.0	103.9	103.1
Finland	80.2	76.8	88.6	88.3	98.7	99.6
Sweden	81.5	80.6	91.1	92.6	100.6	99.4
Norway	82.7	77.7	88.2	87.4	102.9	97.3
Switzerland	92.6	87.7	99.6	95.7	100.9	97.8
* The publication of German data is delayed due to the changeover to new data requirements. : Data not available c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Notes for users

Revisions and timetable

Data of previous months have been revised compared to those issued in the News Release of 5 July 2024. The monthly percentage increase for May 2024 remained unchanged at +0.1% in the euro area as well as in the EU. The annual percentage change has been revised from +0.3% to +0.5% in the euro area and from +0.6% to +0.7% in the EU.

Methods and definitions

The index of the volume of retail trade measures the evolution of the turnover in retail trade, adjusted for price changes (deflated), i.e. the evolution of the total amount of goods sold, based on data adjusted for calendar and seasonal effects.

Seasonally adjusted euro area and EU series are calculated by aggregating the seasonally adjusted national data.

Missing observations from Member States for recent months are estimated for the calculation of the euro area and the EU aggregates.

Starting with reference period January 2024, the base year of the data has been changed to 2021, since 2018 the base year had been 2015. More information on the reasons for and impact of the base year change can be found in the related Statistics Explained article.

Geographical information

The euro area (EA20) includes Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland.

The European Union (EU27) includes Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland and Sweden.