Volume of retail trade up by 0.3% in both the euro area and the EU

Overview

In June 2025, compared with May 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume increased by 0.3% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In May 2025, retail trade volume fell by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.5% in the EU.

In June 2025, compared with June 2024, the calendar adjusted retail sales index increased by 3.1% in both the euro area and the EU.

Retail trade volume

Monthly comparison by retail sector and by Member State

In the euro area in June 2025, compared with May 2025, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.2%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.6%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.4%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.2%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.6%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.6%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest monthly increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Croatia (+3.6%), Sweden (+2.6%) and Malta (+2.2%). The largest decreases were observed in France (-0.9%), Poland and Slovenia (both -0.8%) and Denmark (-0.7%).

Annual comparison by retail sector and by Member State

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

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 1.7%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 4.3%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 4.0%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 1.5%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 4.4%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 4.6%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest annual increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Cyprus (+8.7%), Croatia (+7.4%), Malta and Portugal (both +6.9%). Decreases were observed in Finland (-1.1%) and Slovakia (-0.4%).

Tables

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	Jan-25	Feb-25	Mar-25	Apr-25	May-25	Jun-25
Euro area
Total retail trade	-0.1	0.3	0.3	0.5	-0.3	0.3
Food, drinks, tobacco	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.8	-0.5	0.2
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	-0.1	0.2	0.5	0.1	-0.1	0.6
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	0.0	0.5	0.8	1.2	-0.8	0.4
EU
Total retail trade	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.9	-0.5	0.3
Food, drinks, tobacco	0.3	0.1	-0.3	1.2	-0.6	0.2
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	-0.1	0.1	0.6	0.3	-0.2	0.6
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	0.2	1.5	0.5	1.5	-0.8	0.6
* Calendar and seasonally adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	Jan-25	Feb-25	Mar-25	Apr-25	May-25	Jun-25
Euro area	-0.1	0.3	0.3	0.5	-0.3	0.3
EU	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.9	-0.5	0.3
Belgium	-0.8	0.4	1.4	2.1	-2.5	0.5
Bulgaria	-0.9	-1.6	1.4	-0.3	2.2	0.6
Czechia	-0.3	0.2	0.9	1.2	-0.1	c
Denmark	-0.4	1.1	-0.1	0.2	0.7	-0.7
Germany	0.4	0.2	0.7	-0.1	-0.6	0.9
Estonia	-1.0	2.4	-1.5	1.9	-2.2	1.1
Ireland	-1.6	1.5	0.3	-0.3	0.7	0.5
Greece	1.7	1.8	0.4	0.9	-2.0	c
Spain	-1.2	1.4	0.0	0.8	0.4	1.2
France	0.9	-0.3	0.4	0.6	0.0	-0.9
Croatia	-0.6	-0.2	0.8	1.0	-1.5	3.6
Italy	-0.4	0.0	-0.2	0.5	-0.3	0.4
Cyprus	-2.0	4.5	-0.3	0.6	1.1	0.9
Latvia	-1.2	-0.9	-0.2	0.5	-0.6	0.7
Lithuania	-4.7	0.8	1.3	1.7	0.3	1.1
Luxembourg	-9.5	11.8	2.3	2.9	-1.1	-0.2
Hungary	2.3	-0.7	-0.3	2.0	-1.3	0.5
Malta	-0.8	-0.8	2.6	-1.3	0.2	2.2
Netherlands	1.2	-0.9	0.9	-0.7	-0.1	0.1
Austria	-0.7	0.1	-0.2	0.5	-0.4	-0.1
Poland	0.5	-1.3	-0.8	7.5	-1.9	-0.8
Portugal	0.3	0.3	-0.5	0.7	2.7	1.8
Romania	0.9	0.4	-0.3	0.1	-0.3	1.0
Slovenia	2.1	0.8	-1.3	0.6	0.6	-0.8
Slovakia	-9.3	-0.8	-0.9	2.5	-1.6	0.3
Finland	-1.9	0.3	0.2	1.2	-2.5	0.6
Sweden	-0.5	-0.1	0.2	1.4	-4.5	2.6
Norway	1.2	0.0	0.7	0.5	0.1	0.0
Switzerland	0.5	-0.4	-0.3	-0.2	-0.4	1.4
* 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*
	Jan-25	Feb-25	Mar-25	Apr-25	May-25	Jun-25
Euro area
Total retail trade	1.9	2.0	2.1	2.7	1.9	3.1
Food, drinks, tobacco	1.4	1.5	0.8	2.6	0.6	1.7
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	2.8	2.2	3.0	2.8	2.7	4.3
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	0.3	1.8	2.2	4.3	2.7	4.0
EU
Total retail trade	2.0	1.8	1.8	3.0	2.1	3.1
Food, drinks, tobacco	1.0	1.1	0.2	2.5	0.2	1.5
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	3.1	2.2	3.1	3.2	3.1	4.4
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	0.4	2.1	2.5	4.6	3.3	4.6
* Calendar adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the same month of the previous year*
	Jan-25	Feb-25	Mar-25	Apr-25	May-25	Jun-25
Euro area	1.9	2.0	2.1	2.7	1.9	3.1
EU	2.0	1.8	1.8	3.0	2.1	3.1
Belgium	-0.3	0.0	1.0	3.2	0.9	2.3
Bulgaria	8.1	2.4	5.4	2.4	7.2	6.8
Czechia	3.2	3.2	3.9	5.7	5.4	c
Denmark	3.2	3.1	2.4	3.1	4.6	2.4
Germany	3.3	4.2	3.6	3.1	2.6	4.8
Estonia	2.8	5.2	1.2	6.1	2.5	4.9
Ireland	-1.6	2.2	2.1	0.7	2.0	3.7
Greece	3.3	5.6	0.3	7.4	-5.6	c
Spain	2.0	3.8	3.8	4.2	4.9	6.4
France	2.7	1.5	2.5	3.2	3.0	2.2
Croatia	4.4	2.8	3.7	5.0	2.6	7.4
Italy	-0.3	-1.1	-1.3	0.2	-0.3	0.4
Cyprus	2.9	9.7	6.4	7.7	7.9	8.7
Latvia	1.1	-1.0	-0.7	0.5	-1.5	1.4
Lithuania	2.4	2.1	0.6	4.6	2.3	4.9
Luxembourg	-3.6	5.8	7.6	11.4	7.2	4.6
Hungary	4.6	3.3	0.8	4.9	2.0	3.0
Malta	5.1	0.2	7.6	0.2	-0.7	6.9
Netherlands	1.3	-0.7	1.1	1.0	0.0	1.5
Austria	2.2	2.0	2.1	1.3	0.7	3.6
Poland	1.3	-2.0	-3.0	5.5	3.9	3.1
Portugal	5.0	4.4	3.9	3.0	5.2	6.9
Romania	2.7	4.2	2.6	2.6	2.3	2.7
Slovenia	2.9	4.2	0.3	0.7	2.5	2.2
Slovakia	1.2	-1.5	-2.8	-0.1	-1.7	-0.4
Finland	-1.5	-1.0	-1.2	2.6	-3.9	-1.1
Sweden	3.2	-0.4	2.6	4.1	-1.8	1.9
Norway	3.0	2.3	3.1	4.3	0.1	4.3
Switzerland	2.7	1.8	1.4	0.8	0.3	3.8
* Calendar adjusted c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar and seasonally adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	Jan-25	Feb-25	Mar-25	Apr-25	May-25	Jun-25
Euro area	101.5	101.8	102.1	102.6	102.3	102.6
EU	102.0	102.1	102.4	103.3	102.8	103.1
Belgium	91.7	92.1	93.4	95.4	93.0	93.5
Bulgaria	116.6	114.7	116.3	115.9	118.5	119.2
Czechia	98.0	98.2	99.1	100.3	100.2	c
Denmark	95.2	96.2	96.1	96.3	97.0	96.3
Germany	99.0	99.2	99.9	99.8	99.2	100.1
Estonia	92.3	94.5	93.1	94.9	92.8	93.8
Ireland	108.4	110.0	110.3	110.0	110.8	111.4
Greece	98.5	100.3	100.7	101.6	99.6	c
Spain	107.9	109.4	109.4	110.3	110.7	112.0
France	104.8	104.5	104.9	105.5	105.5	104.5
Croatia	114.8	114.6	115.5	116.7	115.0	119.1
Italy	97.6	97.6	97.4	97.9	97.6	98.0
Cyprus	116.4	121.6	121.2	121.9	123.2	124.3
Latvia	102.9	102.0	101.8	102.3	101.7	102.4
Lithuania	102.3	103.1	104.4	106.2	106.5	107.7
Luxembourg	110.4	123.4	126.2	129.9	128.5	128.2
Hungary	102.0	101.3	101.0	103.0	101.7	102.2
Malta	118.6	117.7	120.8	119.2	119.4	122.0
Netherlands	101.7	100.8	101.7	101.0	100.9	101.0
Austria	97.1	97.2	97.0	97.5	97.1	97.0
Poland	107.8	106.4	105.5	113.4	111.3	110.4
Portugal	112.3	112.6	112.0	112.8	115.9	118.0
Romania	117.9	118.4	118.0	118.1	117.8	119.0
Slovenia	100.2	101.0	99.7	100.3	100.9	100.1
Slovakia	101.9	101.1	100.2	102.7	101.1	101.4
Finland	91.4	91.7	91.9	93.0	90.7	91.2
Sweden	95.1	95.0	95.2	96.5	92.2	94.6
Norway	94.4	94.4	95.1	95.6	95.7	95.7
Switzerland	101.0	100.6	100.3	100.1	99.7	101.1
c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	Jan-25	Feb-25	Mar-25	Apr-25	May-25	Jun-25
Euro area	95.1	90.1	100.5	99.2	101.8	102.9
EU	94.8	90.1	100.8	100.3	102.6	103.5
Belgium	89.2	82.0	93.1	93.6	94.7	96.6
Bulgaria	107.7	99.9	111.3	112.4	115.5	118.9
Czechia	87.6	84.6	96.3	96.4	99.6	c
Denmark	86.2	83.3	93.5	96.6	102.7	99.3
Germany	91.2	89.0	102.3	99.5	99.5	99.0
Estonia	83.5	81.6	91.9	92.6	95.8	96.0
Ireland	91.6	101.9	101.1	101.6	107.5	116.8
Greece	88.6	94.1	96.0	99.8	98.1	c
Spain	106.1	95.5	105.1	105.5	109.3	114.2
France	100.5	92.3	102.6	102.6	103.6	104.4
Croatia	93.1	91.1	106.4	112.1	116.4	127.4
Italy	91.2	86.1	92.7	88.4	97.0	97.7
Cyprus	105.3	106.7	116.3	118.5	120.1	125.7
Latvia	92.5	87.3	100.1	98.6	102.5	103.8
Lithuania	92.5	88.5	102.3	104.3	110.3	109.5
Luxembourg	104.6	112.5	129.8	126.8	130.2	128.8
Hungary	89.1	87.7	98.9	100.5	101.4	103.6
Malta	105.8	98.8	115.8	115.6	122.2	124.7
Netherlands	97.0	88.5	101.6	99.5	104.6	102.8
Austria	88.7	87.4	98.7	98.8	95.5	97.0
Poland	98.7	94.9	108.4	113.0	110.3	108.2
Portugal	102.9	96.9	106.7	105.7	113.9	113.3
Romania	103.1	101.7	113.5	116.6	116.6	118.5
Slovenia	92.0	88.9	101.0	100.1	100.3	101.9
Slovakia	92.6	91.5	100.0	100.9	102.1	102.8
Finland	79.8	76.6	88.0	90.9	94.9	97.5
Sweden	84.0	80.1	93.3	96.0	98.3	100.8
Norway	85.3	79.4	90.8	91.4	103.1	101.6
Switzerland	95.2	89.4	101.1	96.5	101.4	100.7
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 7 July 2025. The monthly percentage change for May 2025 has been revised from -0.7% to -0.3% in the euro area and from -0.8% to -0.5% in the EU. The annual percentage change has been revised from +1.8% to +1.9% in the euro area and from +1.9% to +2.1% 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.

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.