Volume of retail trade up by 0.1% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU

Overview

In July 2024, compared with June 2024, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume increased by 0.1% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In June 2024, retail trade volume fell by 0.4% in both the euro area and the EU.

In July 2024 compared with July 2023, the calendar adjusted retail sales index decreased by 0.1% the euro area and increased by 0.4% in the EU.

Retail trade volume

Monthly comparison by retail sector and by Member State

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

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.4%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.1%,
decreased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 1.0%.

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 0.2%,
decreased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 1.4%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest monthly increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Croatia (+2.9%), Austria and Slovakia (both +1.8%) and Slovenia (+1.6%).The largest decreases were observed in Luxembourg (-2.1%), Romania (-1.8%) and Cyprus (-1.1%).

Annual comparison by retail sector and by Member State

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

decreased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.7%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.2%,
remained stable for automotive fuel in specialised stores.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

decreased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.4%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.9%,
decreased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.4%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest annual increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Luxembourg (+10.3%), Croatia (+7.9%) and Bulgaria (+6.8%). The largest decreases were observed in Belgium (-4.4%), Estonia (-3.1%) and Finland (-2.1%).

Tables

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

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24	Jul-24
Euro area	-0.1	0.6	0.0	0.1	-0.4	0.1
EU	0.1	0.4	-0.1	0.1	-0.4	0.2
Belgium	-1.9	0.5	-0.5	0.4	-1.2	1.4
Bulgaria	1.6	-1.3	1.9	-0.7	1.5	1.2
Czechia	-0.3	1.2	0.1	-0.5	0.6	c
Denmark	1.4	0.3	-1.1	-0.1	0.9	0.1
Germany**	-1.5	2.7	-0.2	:	:	:
Estonia	1.0	0.5	-1.3	-0.6	-1.0	0.6
Ireland	0.3	-0.3	0.8	0.1	-0.6	0.6
Greece	0.8	6.5	-5.6	10.7	-4.3	c
Spain	0.6	-0.4	0.8	-0.5	0.4	0.5
France	0.5	-0.5	0.1	-0.3	-0.6	0.1
Croatia	0.8	0.5	0.7	0.6	-2.7	2.9
Italy	0.1	-0.1	-0.1	c	c	c
Cyprus	-1.9	2.2	-1.1	1.6	0.0	-1.1
Latvia	0.9	0.3	-2.5	0.6	-1.2	0.6
Lithuania	0.8	1.6	-1.3	2.1	-2.0	1.4
Luxembourg	3.0	1.5	0.6	2.4	-3.1	-2.1
Hungary	-0.3	1.9	-1.0	0.1	-0.1	0.0
Malta	0.7	-1.1	1.2	-0.5	-0.4	0.0
Netherlands	0.7	-0.5	-1.1	0.7	-1.6	1.2
Austria	0.4	-0.7	2.0	-0.8	-2.3	1.8
Poland	0.7	-1.0	-1.1	-0.7	-0.5	1.2
Portugal	0.4	-0.1	2.1	0.4	0.8	-0.8
Romania	-0.3	1.0	0.6	-0.3	1.3	-1.8
Slovenia	-0.3	1.7	0.6	-0.8	-1.2	1.6
Slovakia	1.0	-0.7	2.3	-1.0	-1.1	1.8
Finland	0.1	0.7	-1.5	2.2	-1.5	-0.5
Sweden	2.8	-2.4	0.1	0.5	-0.9	0.2
Norway	0.1	0.4	-0.1	3.7	-5.1	1.2
Switzerland	0.0	-0.1	0.1	-0.2	-0.3	1.4
* 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*
	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24	Jul-24
Euro area
Total retail trade	-0.3	0.6	0.7	0.5	-0.4	-0.1
Food, drinks, tobacco	-1.2	0.9	-0.2	0.5	-0.9	-0.7
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	0.6	0.8	1.2	0.8	0.2	0.2
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-1.4	-1.0	1.5	0.7	-0.2	0.0
EU
Total retail trade	0.2	1.3	0.5	0.6	-0.1	0.4
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.5	1.3	-0.1	0.8	-0.8	-0.4
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	1.0	1.7	0.7	0.8	0.3	0.9
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-1.0	-1.1	1.6	0.2	0.5	-0.4
* Calendar adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the same month of the previous year*
	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24	Jul-24
Euro area	-0.3	0.6	0.7	0.5	-0.4	-0.1
EU	0.2	1.3	0.5	0.6	-0.1	0.4
Belgium	-6.8	-4.6	-5.8	-5.2	-7.3	-4.4
Bulgaria	3.1	0.4	9.9	1.6	4.4	6.8
Czechia	2.5	5.8	5.7	3.0	4.4	c
Denmark	2.0	3.0	-0.4	-0.2	1.5	3.9
Germany**	-2.3	1.0	0.3	:	:	:
Estonia	-3.5	-2.3	-4.9	-4.0	-4.1	-3.1
Ireland	-0.7	0.2	1.4	-0.3	-1.4	0.8
Greece	-9.5	5.3	-6.4	10.5	5.8	c
Spain	1.8	0.6	0.5	0.1	0.4	1.2
France	1.5	0.8	2.9	1.7	0.0	-0.3
Croatia	9.1	8.9	8.6	8.4	5.4	7.9
Italy	-0.6	-1.3	-1.0	c	c	c
Cyprus	0.6	5.0	1.9	3.8	3.9	1.1
Latvia	-0.5	2.5	0.3	0.9	-1.3	-0.4
Lithuania	2.6	6.2	2.4	5.7	2.6	5.3
Luxembourg	16.5	17.7	19.0	21.1	9.9	10.3
Hungary	1.7	4.1	3.2	3.7	2.6	2.5
Malta	4.6	-0.8	4.0	1.2	-0.7	-1.1
Netherlands	2.5	3.2	1.9	2.4	-1.9	2.7
Austria	-1.0	-1.8	1.8	1.0	-4.0	-1.1
Poland	2.2	8.2	-7.8	-2.1	-2.4	1.2
Portugal	1.2	0.9	1.9	2.9	3.3	2.0
Romania	7.4	5.7	9.9	6.1	10.3	6.5
Slovenia	-4.4	-1.7	1.2	-0.7	-0.3	2.4
Slovakia	4.1	1.3	8.6	5.3	1.6	5.1
Finland	-2.7	0.0	-4.3	0.3	-1.2	-2.1
Sweden	2.4	0.0	-0.4	0.9	-0.4	-0.2
Norway	-0.3	0.9	0.9	3.2	-2.8	-0.7
Switzerland	-0.2	-0.1	2.4	-0.1	-2.6	2.7
* 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)
	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24	Jul-24
Euro area	99.0	99.6	99.6	99.7	99.3	99.4
EU	99.7	100.1	100.0	100.1	99.7	99.9
Belgium	84.7	85.1	84.7	85.0	84.0	85.2
Bulgaria	109.5	108.1	110.2	109.4	111.0	112.3
Czechia	94.3	95.4	95.5	95.0	95.6	c
Denmark	94.0	94.3	93.3	93.2	94.0	94.1
Germany*	94.3	96.8	96.6	:	:	:
Estonia	91.2	91.7	90.5	90.0	89.1	89.6
Ireland	108.4	108.1	109.0	109.1	108.4	109.1
Greece	95.7	101.9	96.2	106.5	101.9	c
Spain	105.3	104.9	105.7	105.2	105.6	106.1
France	102.8	102.3	102.4	102.1	101.5	101.6
Croatia	110.8	111.3	112.1	112.8	109.7	112.9
Italy	97.6	97.5	97.4	c	c	c
Cyprus	111.4	113.8	112.6	114.4	114.4	113.1
Latvia	103.5	103.8	101.2	101.8	100.6	101.2
Lithuania	101.5	103.1	101.8	103.9	101.8	103.2
Luxembourg	116.4	118.1	118.8	121.7	117.9	115.4
Hungary	98.4	100.3	99.3	99.4	99.3	99.3
Malta	113.5	112.2	113.6	113.0	112.5	112.5
Netherlands	101.8	101.3	100.2	100.9	99.3	100.5
Austria	95.3	94.6	96.5	95.7	93.5	95.2
Poland	109.1	108.0	106.8	106.1	105.6	106.9
Portugal	107.1	107.0	109.2	109.6	110.5	109.6
Romania	113.1	114.2	114.9	114.6	116.1	114.0
Slovenia	97.5	99.2	99.8	99.0	97.8	99.4
Slovakia	101.8	101.1	103.4	102.4	101.3	103.1
Finland	91.7	92.3	90.9	92.9	91.5	91.0
Sweden	95.4	93.1	93.2	93.7	92.9	93.1
Norway	92.2	92.6	92.5	95.9	91.0	92.1
Switzerland	98.9	98.8	98.9	98.7	98.4	99.8
* 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

Volume of retail trade, calendar adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24	Jul-24
Euro area	87.9	98.0	96.2	99.6	99.8	98.6
EU	88.2	98.7	97.0	100.3	100.4	99.5
Belgium	74.8	84.5	83.2	86.8	86.9	85.5
Bulgaria	96.5	104.3	108.4	106.4	109.9	116.2
Czechia	81.3	92.9	91.3	94.8	96.4	c
Denmark	80.9	91.4	91.9	98.6	97.2	93.5
Germany*	85.1	98.5	96.2	:	:	:
Estonia	77.6	90.8	87.3	93.5	91.5	93.9
Ireland	99.7	99.0	101.0	105.4	112.6	99.2
Greece	89.1	95.7	92.9	103.9	102.1	c
Spain	92.0	101.3	101.2	104.2	107.3	115.0
France	90.8	99.9	99.4	100.3	101.8	85.9
Croatia	88.7	102.6	106.8	113.4	118.5	139.3
Italy	87.1	94.1	88.2	c	c	c
Cyprus	97.0	109.4	109.1	111.9	115.9	120.0
Latvia	87.9	101.0	98.2	104.7	102.1	106.4
Lithuania	87.3	101.1	99.9	108.3	103.9	108.2
Luxembourg	107.8	122.4	116.5	124.0	116.5	117.8
Hungary	85.2	98.3	95.5	99.3	100.8	102.5
Malta	100.3	107.8	110.6	117.2	113.0	117.2
Netherlands	89.2	100.5	98.9	105.1	101.6	103.0
Austria	85.7	96.8	97.5	94.8	93.6	97.1
Poland	96.8	111.7	107.1	106.2	104.9	108.3
Portugal	92.6	102.7	102.3	107.9	106.0	116.8
Romania	97.6	110.6	113.6	114.0	115.4	118.7
Slovenia	85.2	100.7	99.3	97.9	99.8	102.5
Slovakia	92.9	102.9	101.0	103.9	103.1	102.3
Finland	76.5	88.1	87.7	97.9	98.3	97.0
Sweden	80.6	91.1	92.3	100.3	99.3	96.2
Norway	77.6	88.2	87.5	102.8	97.3	91.2
Switzerland	87.8	99.7	95.8	101.0	97.4	99.4
* 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

Notes for users

Revisions and timetable

Data of previous months have been revised compared to those issued in the News Release of 6 August 2024. The monthly percentage change for June 2024 has been revised from -0.3% to -0.4% in the euro area and from -0.1% to -0.4% in the EU. The annual percentage change has been revised from -0.3% to -0.4% in the euro area and from +0.1% to -0.1% 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.