Euro Area Retail Sales Mom

Last Release

Jan 31, 2025

Actual

-0.3

Units In

-0.2

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Apr 07, 2025

Time to Release

30 Days 2 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
19 May 2020	-11.5 Apr 2020	0.07 %	1995-2025	Eurostat

In the Euro Area, retail sales show the evolution of the total amount of goods sold. Among them, food drinks and tobacco account for the highest share (39.3 percent); followed by electrical goods and furniture (12.0 percent share); computer equipment books and other (11.4 percent share); pharmaceutical and medical goods (9.9 percent share); textiles, clothing, footwear (9.2 percent share); auto fuel (9.1 percent share); other non-food products (6.0 percent share) and mail orders and internet (2.9 percent share). Among countries, Germany has the highest weight (25.9 percent), followed by France (21.7 percent), Italy (16.1 percent) and Spain (11.4 percent). Others are Netherlands (5.2 percent); Belgium (4.3 percent); Greece (3.0 percent); Austria (2.8 percent); Portugal (2.4 percent); Finland (1.8 percent); Ireland (1.7 percent); Luxembourg and Slovakia (0.8 percent each); Slovenia (0.6 percent); Lithuania (0.4 percent); Latvia and Cyprus (0.3 percent); Estonia (0.2 percent) and Malta (0.1 percent).

Latest Updates

Eurozone retail trade fell by 0.3% month-over-month in January 2025, following two months of flat growth and missing market expectations of a 0.1% increase. Non-food product sales dropped by 0.7% after a 0.5% rise in December, while fuel sales declined by 0.3% for the second consecutive month. On the other hand, sales of food, drinks, and tobacco rose by 0.6%, reversing four months of either contraction or stagnation. Among the bloc’s largest economies, retail sales declined in Italy (-0.4%) and France (-0.1%), but saw growth in the Netherlands (1.6%) and Germany (0.1%).