Benin: Retail sales Y-on-Y
(measure: percent, source: Central Bank of West African States)
* indicates monthly or quarterly data series
Retail sales Y-on-Y in Benin, September, 2019:
For that indicator, Central Bank of West African States provides data for Benin from Q1 2013 to Q3 2019. The average value for Benin during that period was 7.46 percent with a minimum of -39.11 percent in Q3 2019 and a maximum of 52.64 percent in Q3 2015.
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* indicates monthly or quarterly data series
Measure: percent
Source: Central Bank of West African States
Source: Central Bank of West African States
Definition: The retail sales Y-on-Y is an aggregated measure of the sales of retail goods over a stated period. Because retail sales are a measure of consumer demand for finished goods, they are a leading macroeconomic indicator of the pulse of an economy and its projected path toward expansion or contraction.
Retail sales Y-on-Y is calculated as the percent change in the Retail sales index from the same month the previous year.
The Retail sales Y-on-Y measures only volume changes, i.e. price level changes are excluded.
