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

Overview

In November 2024, compared with October 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 October 2024, retail trade volume fell by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.1% in the EU.

In November 2024, compared with November 2023, the calendar adjusted retail sales index increased by 1.2% in the euro area and by 1.5% in the EU.

Retail trade volume

Monthly comparison by retail sector and by Member State

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

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.1%,
decreased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.6%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.8%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.2%,
decreased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.4%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.8%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest monthly increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Cyprus (+2.3%), Bulgaria (+1.3%), Denmark and Latvia (both +1.1%). The largest decreases were observed in Belgium (-2.4%), Germany and Spain (both -0.6%), as well as in Poland and Finland (both -0.2%).

Annual comparison by retail sector and by Member State

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

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.6%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 1.5%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.9%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.8%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 2.0%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.9%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest annual increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Luxembourg (+15.3%), Lithuania (+7.2%) and Bulgaria (+6.8%). The largest decreases were observed in Belgium (-5.4%), Finland (-2.7%) and Estonia (-0.2%).

Tables

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	2024
	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov
Euro area
Total retail trade	-0.6	0.4	1.1	0.5	-0.3	0.1
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.5	0.0	0.9	-0.6	0.2	0.1
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	-0.5	0.7	1.3	1.2	-0.6	-0.6
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-0.4	-0.1	1.2	-0.6	-0.4	0.8
EU
Total retail trade	-0.6	0.5	0.9	0.4	-0.1	0.2
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.8	0.2	0.8	-0.4	0.0	0.2
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	-0.5	0.9	1.1	1.0	-0.4	-0.4
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-0.1	-0.6	0.9	-0.4	-0.5	0.8
* Calendar and seasonally adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
				2024
	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov
Euro area	-0.6	0.4	1.1	0.5	-0.3	0.1
EU	-0.6	0.5	0.9	0.4	-0.1	0.2
Belgium	-1.0	1.1	0.2	2.1	-1.7	-2.4
Bulgaria	1.5	0.8	-0.8	0.6	1.3	1.3
Czechia	0.4	0.9	0.1	-0.1	0.6	c
Denmark	0.9	-0.2	-1.6	2.3	-1.2	1.1
Germany	-0.5	0.6	0.9	1.7	-0.3	-0.6
Estonia	-0.7	0.6	0.7	-0.7	1.4	0.4
Ireland	c	c	c	c	c	c
Greece	-6.0	-4.3	-2.5	1.6	-2.3	c
Spain	0.5	0.6	0.5	1.0	-0.1	-0.6
France	-0.6	0.1	3.1	-1.0	-0.5	0.3
Croatia	-1.2	1.4	-0.7	2.1	0.6	0.8
Italy	-0.2	0.3	0.1	c	c	c
Cyprus	0.4	-0.7	1.8	0.3	-1.1	2.3
Latvia	-1.0	1.2	0.1	-0.1	0.6	1.1
Lithuania	-2.0	1.4	0.0	0.6	2.1	0.6
Luxembourg	1.3	0.5	-0.2	-1.5	2.2	1.0
Hungary	-0.2	0.1	0.8	-1.3	1.2	0.6
Malta	-0.5	0.6	0.3	0.0	0.4	0.5
Netherlands	-1.6	0.6	1.0	-0.1	-0.2	-0.1
Austria	-2.8	3.2	0.0	0.8	0.0	0.7
Poland	-0.5	2.4	-0.1	-1.9	2.2	-0.2
Portugal	0.7	-0.3	1.0	-0.4	1.2	0.5
Romania	1.3	-1.6	1.6	1.1	c	c
Slovenia	-1.1	1.9	-0.6	-1.5	1.1	0.4
Slovakia	-1.1	2.0	-1.0	1.2	0.7	0.4
Finland	-1.7	-0.1	1.0	-2.0	0.1	-0.2
Sweden	-1.0	0.8	0.4	0.0	-0.1	0.5
Norway	-5.0	1.0	0.1	-0.2	0.3	0.3
Switzerland	-0.9	2.0	0.2	-0.9	0.1	-0.1
* 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*
	2024
	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov
Euro area
Total retail trade	-0.8	0.2	2.5	3.1	2.1	1.2
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.3	-0.3	1.4	0.1	0.8	0.6
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	-0.9	0.2	2.5	5.6	3.0	1.5
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-0.2	0.1	5.0	2.3	1.1	0.9
EU
Total retail trade	-0.4	0.8	2.6	2.9	2.2	1.5
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.3	0.1	1.3	0.4	0.8	0.8
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	-0.6	0.9	2.7	5.3	3.3	2.0
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	0.3	0.0	3.9	1.6	0.0	0.9
* Calendar adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the same month of the previous year*
	2024
	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov
Euro area	-0.8	0.2	2.5	3.1	2.1	1.2
EU	-0.4	0.8	2.6	2.9	2.2	1.5
Belgium	-6.3	-4.0	-1.7	-0.7	-2.5	-5.4
Bulgaria	4.4	6.8	4.9	4.8	5.1	6.8
Czechia	3.7	5.0	5.0	4.8	5.5	c
Denmark	1.3	3.4	-1.6	2.6	0.1	1.7
Germany	-1.8	0.0	2.2	4.6	2.4	2.4
Estonia	-4.1	-3.1	-2.7	-4.4	-1.6	-0.2
Ireland	c	c	c	c	c	c
Greece	5.9	-2.5	-5.1	-0.6	-1.5	c
Spain	0.4	1.2	2.4	4.4	3.8	1.0
France	0.1	-0.6	5.2	3.3	2.5	1.5
Croatia	5.6	7.9	5.7	7.1	6.7	6.7
Italy	-1.0	-0.2	0.1	c	c	c
Cyprus	4.0	2.0	5.8	5.9	3.4	6.2
Latvia	-1.3	0.2	0.6	0.2	0.0	2.7
Lithuania	2.6	5.6	4.2	4.7	6.7	7.2
Luxembourg	17.1	20.8	21.8	15.9	16.3	15.3
Hungary	2.5	2.5	4.0	1.8	3.6	4.0
Malta	2.9	3.2	3.1	2.6	2.7	3.3
Netherlands	-1.9	1.9	2.4	1.5	1.0	0.5
Austria	-4.0	-0.3	0.7	2.2	2.6	3.1
Poland	-2.4	2.0	1.1	-3.0	0.8	0.7
Portugal	3.2	2.4	5.5	3.8	5.3	5.8
Romania	10.3	6.5	8.7	10.4	c	c
Slovenia	-0.3	3.0	1.6	-1.3	-0.5	-0.1
Slovakia	1.7	5.2	1.1	3.9	4.6	4.9
Finland	-1.4	-1.4	0.6	-2.3	-2.2	-2.7
Sweden	-0.8	0.1	0.8	2.0	0.3	2.1
Norway	-2.8	-0.7	-0.1	-0.5	-0.3	0.3
Switzerland	-3.0	2.6	2.7	1.4	1.5	0.9
* Calendar adjusted c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar and seasonally adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	2024
	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov
Euro area	99.5	99.9	101.0	101.5	101.2	101.3
EU	99.9	100.4	101.3	101.7	101.6	101.8
Belgium	88.6	89.6	89.8	91.7	90.1	87.9
Bulgaria	111.0	111.8	111.0	111.7	113.1	114.6
Czechia	95.6	96.5	96.6	96.5	97.1	c
Denmark	94.2	94.0	92.5	94.6	93.5	94.5
Germany	96.0	96.6	97.5	99.2	98.9	98.3
Estonia	89.6	90.1	90.7	90.1	91.4	91.8
Ireland	c	c	c	c	c	c
Greece	103.5	99.0	96.5	98.0	95.7	c
Spain	105.9	106.5	107.0	108.1	108.0	107.3
France	101.8	101.9	105.1	104.1	103.6	103.9
Croatia	110.8	112.4	111.6	113.9	114.6	115.5
Italy	97.6	97.9	98.0	c	c	c
Cyprus	114.8	114.0	116.1	116.4	115.1	117.7
Latvia	101.2	102.4	102.5	102.4	103.0	104.1
Lithuania	101.8	103.2	103.2	103.8	106.0	106.6
Luxembourg	123.6	124.2	124.0	122.1	124.8	126.0
Hungary	99.3	99.4	100.2	98.9	100.1	100.7
Malta	114.7	115.4	115.7	115.7	116.2	116.8
Netherlands	99.3	99.9	100.9	100.8	100.6	100.5
Austria	93.4	96.4	96.4	97.2	97.2	97.9
Poland	105.6	108.1	108.0	106.0	108.3	108.1
Portugal	110.4	110.1	111.2	110.8	112.1	112.7
Romania	116.1	114.3	116.1	117.4	c	c
Slovenia	97.8	99.7	99.1	97.6	98.7	99.1
Slovakia	101.4	103.4	102.4	103.6	104.3	104.7
Finland	91.5	91.4	92.3	90.5	90.6	90.4
Sweden	92.9	93.6	94.0	94.0	93.9	94.4
Norway	91.2	92.1	92.2	92.0	92.3	92.6
Switzerland	98.0	100.0	100.2	99.3	99.4	99.3
c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	2024
	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov
Euro area	99.6	99.0	103.9	99.1	102.3	103.9
EU	100.2	100.0	104.1	99.4	102.8	104.7
Belgium	91.5	90.2	84.5	88.3	92.1	89.3
Bulgaria	109.9	116.2	115.9	112.9	116.2	121.4
Czechia	95.7	95.1	94.3	93.2	99.9	c
Denmark	97.1	93.2	93.4	90.2	91.4	102.5
Germany	94.5	97.6	94.4	96.2	100.6	105.4
Estonia	91.5	93.9	93.7	88.8	93.1	93.2
Ireland	c	c	c	c	c	c
Greece	102.2	103.7	103.7	100.6	96.6	c
Spain	107.3	115.0	106.3	106.0	107.6	107.2
France	102.0	85.6	123.0	101.0	103.9	104.6
Croatia	118.6	139.3	136.2	118.7	112.8	105.5
Italy	97.3	105.4	96.6	c	c	c
Cyprus	115.7	120.9	116.2	115.9	114.2	120.6
Latvia	102.2	106.9	107.7	100.2	101.3	101.6
Lithuania	103.9	108.6	109.5	102.7	107.4	106.1
Luxembourg	124.1	129.0	114.4	120.0	125.5	126.6
Hungary	100.7	102.5	103.0	97.2	103.5	105.4
Malta	116.5	121.7	116.8	111.2	116.7	123.9
Netherlands	101.6	102.2	96.3	96.5	101.3	105.3
Austria	93.6	97.9	95.0	96.0	99.5	99.2
Poland	104.9	109.1	109.7	105.3	111.6	109.0
Portugal	105.9	117.3	118.8	108.5	110.8	113.7
Romania	115.4	118.7	122.8	119.0	c	c
Slovenia	99.7	103.1	99.4	97.6	101.2	100.8
Slovakia	103.2	102.5	101.0	100.5	107.4	108.9
Finland	98.1	97.7	96.9	88.7	90.2	90.8
Sweden	99.0	96.4	95.1	90.1	94.6	99.5
Norway	97.3	91.2	94.3	88.3	90.6	101.2
Switzerland	97.0	99.3	95.2	94.4	99.4	106.6
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 December 2024. The monthly percentage change for October 2024 has been revised from -0.5% to -0.3% in the euro area and from -0.3% to -0.1% in the EU. The annual percentage change has been revised from +1.9% to +2.1% in the euro area and from +2.1% to +2.2% 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.