Volume of retail trade stable in both the euro area and the EU

Overview

In October 2025, compared with September 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume remained stable in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In September 2025, retail trade volume grew by 0.1% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU.

In October 2025, compared with October 2024, the calendar adjusted retail sales index increased by 1.5% in the euro area and by 1.6% in the EU.

Retail trade volume

Monthly comparison by retail sector and by Member State

In the euro area in October 2025, compared with September 2025, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.3%,
decreased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.2%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.3%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.4%,
decreased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.2%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.5%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest monthly increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Luxembourg (+3.6%), Estonia (+1.7%) and Croatia (+1.4%). The largest decreases were observed in Belgium (-1.3%), Austria (-0.6%), Ireland and Sweden (both -0.4%).

Annual comparison by retail sector and by Member State

In the euro area in October 2025, compared with October 2024, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.9%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 2.1%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 1.8%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.5%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 2.4%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 2.6%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest annual increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Cyprus (+9.9%), Bulgaria (+7.4%) and Malta (+6.2%). Decreases were observed in Luxembourg (-0.8%), Austria (-0.6%) and Belgium (-0.1%).

Tables

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	May-25	Jun-25	Jul-25	Aug-25	Sep-25	Oct-25
Euro area
Total retail trade	-0.2	0.5	-0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.5	0.5	-0.7	0.4	-0.2	0.3
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	0.0	0.6	0.6	-0.5	0.0	-0.2
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-1.0	0.8	-1.2	-0.3	0.0	0.3
EU
Total retail trade	-0.4	0.5	0.0	-0.2	0.2	0.0
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.7	0.4	-0.6	0.4	-0.4	0.4
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	-0.1	0.6	0.6	-0.4	0.2	-0.2
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-0.9	0.8	-1.1	-0.4	-0.1	0.5
* Calendar and seasonally adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	May-25	Jun-25	Jul-25	Aug-25	Sep-25	Oct-25
Euro area	-0.2	0.5	-0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0
EU	-0.4	0.5	0.0	-0.2	0.2	0.0
Belgium	-2.5	0.5	0.2	0.4	0.3	-1.3
Bulgaria	2.2	0.7	-0.3	0.2	1.3	1.0
Czechia	-0.7	0.4	-0.4	0.5	-0.1	c
Denmark	0.6	-0.6	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.5
Germany	-0.4	0.6	-0.2	-0.4	0.3	-0.3
Estonia	-2.2	1.0	-2.0	0.1	1.5	1.7
Ireland	0.6	0.5	-0.2	-0.6	0.7	-0.4
Greece	-1.9	2.1	-1.4	0.0	-1.9	c
Spain	0.3	1.2	-0.4	0.4	0.4	0.0
France	0.1	0.0	0.2	0.5	0.0	-0.1
Croatia	-0.7	1.6	-1.7	0.3	1.3	1.4
Italy	-0.3	0.4	-0.3	c	c	c
Cyprus	1.1	0.9	0.0	1.6	0.1	0.6
Latvia	-0.4	0.8	1.4	1.1	-0.6	1.1
Lithuania	0.3	0.9	1.1	1.3	-0.8	0.3
Luxembourg	-2.1	-0.8	4.7	-9.8	1.5	3.6
Hungary	-1.3	0.5	-0.4	0.8	0.0	0.6
Malta	0.4	2.0	0.1	-0.7	1.7	0.6
Netherlands	-0.1	0.3	0.5	0.1	-0.4	0.0
Austria	-0.4	0.1	0.0	-0.6	0.8	-0.6
Poland	-1.4	-0.8	0.4	-1.2	0.5	-0.2
Portugal	2.8	0.9	-0.2	-0.9	0.5	0.3
Romania	-0.3	1.1	-0.7	-4.0	c	c
Slovenia	0.4	-0.4	-1.0	0.0	0.1	1.0
Slovakia	-1.3	0.3	0.9	-0.4	1.4	-0.1
Finland	-1.4	0.1	0.8	0.0	0.1	0.2
Sweden	-4.1	2.8	0.7	1.2	0.2	-0.4
Norway	0.1	0.1	0.6	0.1	-0.5	0.1
Switzerland	-0.7	2.1	-0.6	-0.1	0.6	0.7
* Calendar and seasonally adjusted c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the same month of the previous year*
	May-25	Jun-25	Jul-25	Aug-25	Sep-25	Oct-25
Euro area
Total retail trade	2.3	3.8	2.6	1.8	1.2	1.5
Food, drinks, tobacco	1.0	2.6	1.2	0.9	0.9	0.9
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	3.0	4.7	4.1	2.7	1.5	2.1
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	2.8	4.3	2.2	0.8	1.1	1.8
EU
Total retail trade	2.4	3.6	2.8	1.7	1.5	1.6
Food, drinks, tobacco	0.5	2.3	0.9	0.7	0.3	0.5
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	3.3	4.7	4.1	2.7	2.2	2.4
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	3.3	4.8	3.1	1.5	1.9	2.6
* Calendar adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the same month of the previous year*
	May-25	Jun-25	Jul-25	Aug-25	Sep-25	Oct-25
Euro area	2.3	3.8	2.6	1.8	1.2	1.5
EU	2.4	3.6	2.8	1.7	1.5	1.6
Belgium	0.9	2.3	1.2	1.1	-0.8	-0.1
Bulgaria	7.2	6.8	6.0	4.9	5.7	7.4
Czechia	4.6	4.7	2.3	3.3	2.6	c
Denmark	4.2	2.2	2.7	3.0	2.6	3.1
Germany	3.6	5.6	3.8	1.9	0.9	0.9
Estonia	2.5	4.9	0.6	-1.1	3.2	4.0
Ireland	2.0	4.0	2.2	1.3	1.9	1.2
Greece	-5.8	1.8	2.2	3.8	-1.7	c
Spain	4.9	6.5	4.6	4.7	4.3	3.9
France	3.3	3.7	2.6	1.8	2.1	2.1
Croatia	2.6	7.4	1.5	2.4	3.1	4.1
Italy	-0.3	0.4	0.3	c	c	c
Cyprus	7.9	8.7	8.5	9.4	8.5	9.9
Latvia	-1.3	1.2	1.7	4.3	2.8	4.9
Lithuania	2.3	4.6	4.7	6.3	4.5	3.9
Luxembourg	9.3	9.7	15.5	13.1	4.1	-0.8
Hungary	2.0	3.0	1.8	2.4	3.0	3.1
Malta	-1.2	5.4	3.8	-0.5	6.2	6.2
Netherlands	0.0	1.7	2.3	1.1	0.9	1.1
Austria	0.8	4.1	0.9	-0.1	0.3	-0.6
Poland	4.0	3.1	2.7	0.9	4.0	2.6
Portugal	5.3	5.9	6.1	3.9	5.1	4.3
Romania	2.3	2.8	4.8	-3.8	c	c
Slovenia	2.5	2.9	-0.5	0.1	1.7	2.2
Slovakia	-1.5	-0.3	-0.2	-0.3	1.3	0.4
Finland	-4.6	-2.0	0.3	-1.4	0.8	1.3
Sweden	-1.5	2.2	2.8	4.1	4.2	3.3
Norway	0.0	4.3	5.1	5.0	3.7	3.3
Switzerland	0.0	4.2	0.8	-0.1	1.8	2.6
* Calendar adjusted c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar and seasonally adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	May-25	Jun-25	Jul-25	Aug-25	Sep-25	Oct-25
Euro area	102.6	103.1	103.0	103.0	103.1	103.1
EU	103.1	103.6	103.6	103.4	103.6	103.6
Belgium	93.0	93.5	93.7	94.1	94.4	93.2
Bulgaria	118.5	119.3	119.0	119.2	120.7	121.9
Czechia	99.2	99.6	99.2	99.7	99.6	c
Denmark	96.9	96.3	96.8	97.0	97.3	97.8
Germany	100.1	100.7	100.5	100.1	100.4	100.1
Estonia	92.6	93.5	91.6	91.7	93.1	94.7
Ireland	110.8	111.4	111.2	110.5	111.3	110.8
Greece	99.4	101.5	100.1	100.1	98.2	c
Spain	110.6	111.9	111.4	111.9	112.4	112.4
France	105.9	105.9	106.1	106.6	106.6	106.5
Croatia	115.5	117.4	115.4	115.8	117.3	118.9
Italy	97.6	98.0	97.7	c	c	c
Cyprus	123.3	124.4	124.4	126.4	126.5	127.3
Latvia	102.4	103.2	104.6	105.7	105.1	106.3
Lithuania	106.5	107.5	108.7	110.1	109.2	109.5
Luxembourg	133.3	132.2	138.4	124.9	126.8	131.4
Hungary	101.7	102.2	101.8	102.6	102.6	103.2
Malta	119.7	122.1	122.2	121.4	123.5	124.3
Netherlands	100.9	101.2	101.7	101.8	101.4	101.4
Austria	97.1	97.2	97.2	96.6	97.4	96.8
Poland	112.0	111.1	111.5	110.2	110.7	110.5
Portugal	116.0	117.1	116.9	115.8	116.4	116.7
Romania	117.8	119.1	118.3	113.6	c	c
Slovenia	101.0	100.6	99.6	99.6	99.7	100.7
Slovakia	101.5	101.8	102.7	102.3	103.7	103.6
Finland	90.9	91.0	91.7	91.7	91.8	92.0
Sweden	92.7	95.3	96.0	97.2	97.4	97.0
Norway	95.7	95.8	96.4	96.5	96.0	96.1
Switzerland	99.5	101.6	101.0	100.9	101.5	102.2
c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	May-25	Jun-25	Jul-25	Aug-25	Sep-25	Oct-25
Euro area	102.2	103.6	101.9	106.0	100.6	104.2
EU	102.9	104.0	102.9	106.1	101.1	104.9
Belgium	94.7	96.6	94.2	88.4	90.6	95.0
Bulgaria	115.5	118.9	125.7	123.9	122.0	126.4
Czechia	98.8	100.2	97.0	97.2	95.4	c
Denmark	102.3	99.1	95.2	98.5	92.3	95.9
Germany	100.5	99.8	101.4	96.2	97.2	101.8
Estonia	95.8	96.0	94.5	92.7	91.6	96.8
Ireland	107.5	117.1	101.6	103.5	104.9	103.7
Greece	97.9	104.0	106.0	107.6	98.9	c
Spain	109.3	114.3	120.3	111.4	110.6	111.7
France	103.9	106.0	88.0	125.6	103.5	106.7
Croatia	116.4	127.4	141.3	139.6	122.4	117.5
Italy	97.0	97.7	105.9	c	c	c
Cyprus	120.1	125.7	131.3	126.9	125.7	126.0
Latvia	102.6	103.7	108.8	112.5	102.7	106.6
Lithuania	110.3	109.2	113.2	116.4	107.8	111.1
Luxembourg	132.8	135.1	148.9	128.7	130.7	134.8
Hungary	101.4	103.6	104.1	105.5	100.5	106.8
Malta	121.6	122.9	129.6	129.1	120.0	129.5
Netherlands	104.6	103.0	104.2	97.0	96.9	102.0
Austria	95.5	97.5	98.8	94.9	96.3	98.9
Poland	110.4	108.1	112.0	110.7	109.5	115.7
Portugal	114.0	112.3	124.6	123.5	113.8	115.4
Romania	116.6	118.6	124.4	118.1	c	c
Slovenia	100.3	102.5	102.6	99.5	99.3	103.4
Slovakia	102.1	102.9	102.6	100.6	102.0	107.8
Finland	94.2	96.6	98.4	96.0	89.6	91.7
Sweden	98.6	101.1	98.9	98.9	93.7	96.4
Norway	103.0	101.6	96.0	99.2	91.7	93.8
Switzerland	101.1	101.2	100.1	95.3	96.4	102.4
c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Notes for users

Revisions and timetable

Compared with the data issued in the News Release of 6 November 2025, the monthly percentage change for September 2025 has been revised from -0.1% to +0.1% in the euro area and from 0.0% to +0.2% in the EU. The annual percentage change has been revised from +1.0% to +1.2% in the euro area and from +1.3% to +1.5% 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.

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.