Germany: Retail sales
(measure: index points, source: Eurostat)
* indicates monthly or quarterly data series
Retail sales index in Germany, May, 2019:
For that indicator, Eurostat provides data for Germany from 1994 to 2019. The average value for Germany during that period was 97.23 index points with a minumum of 90.7 index points in June 2009 and a maximum of 110.2 index points in March 2019.
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Measure: index points
Source: Eurostat
Source: Eurostat
Definition: The retail sales index 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.
