Volume of retail trade up by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU

Up by 2.3% in the euro area and by 2.0% in the EU compared with February 2024

Overview

In February 2025, compared with January 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume increased by 0.3% 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 January 2025, retail trade volume remained stable in the euro area and grew by 0.1% in the EU.

In February 2025, compared with February 2024, the calendar adjusted retail sales index increased by 2.3% in the euro area and by 2.0% in the EU.

Retail trade volume

Monthly comparison by retail sector and by Member State

In the euro area in February 2025, compared with January 2025, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.3%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.3%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.2%.

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 0.2%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 1.4%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest monthly increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Cyprus (+4.7%), Estonia (+2.2%) and Lithuania (+1.7%). The largest decreases were observed in Bulgaria (-1.7%), the Netherlands (-1.4%) and Poland (-1.2%).

Annual comparison by retail sector and by Member State

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

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 1.9%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 2.5%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.7%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 1.4%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 2.5%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 1.2%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest annual increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Luxembourg (+10.3%), Cyprus (+8.5%) and Estonia (+5.2%). The largest decreases were observed in Poland (-1.5%), Slovakia (-1.4%) and the Netherlands (-1.2%).

Tables

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	Sep-24	Oct-24	Nov-24	Dec-24	Jan-25	Feb-25
Euro area
Total retail trade	0.6	-0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.4	0.0	0.0	-0.4	0.5	0.3
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	1.1	-0.6	-0.1	0.4	-0.2	0.3
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-0.7	-0.5	1.0	-0.5	0.0	0.2
EU
Total retail trade	0.4	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.1	0.2
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.3	0.0	-0.1	-0.2	0.3	0.2
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	0.9	-0.3	-0.1	0.5	-0.2	0.2
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-0.6	-0.7	1.5	-0.8	0.1	1.4
* Calendar and seasonally adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	Sep-24	Oct-24	Nov-24	Dec-24	Jan-25	Feb-25
Euro area	0.6	-0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3
EU	0.4	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.1	0.2
Belgium	2.3	-1.9	-2.4	1.3	-0.8	0.4
Bulgaria	0.7	0.7	1.6	0.4	-0.9	-1.7
Czechia	-0.1	0.5	-0.2	1.2	-0.5	c
Denmark	1.1	0.1	-0.1	0.4	-0.1	0.8
Germany	1.7	-0.1	0.3	-1.0	0.7	0.7
Estonia	-0.7	1.8	0.3	1.3	-0.7	2.2
Ireland	0.7	-0.5	0.9	0.3	-1.5	1.4
Greece	1.5	-2.3	2.0	-3.0	0.6	c
Spain	1.0	0.0	-0.6	1.5	-1.2	1.3
France	-0.9	-0.5	0.2	-0.6	0.7	0.2
Croatia	1.4	0.6	0.7	0.6	-1.4	-0.9
Italy	0.5	-0.4	-0.4	0.4	-0.4	-0.1
Cyprus	0.3	-1.1	2.4	-0.1	-2.5	4.7
Latvia	0.0	0.3	1.2	0.3	-1.2	-0.9
Lithuania	0.5	0.9	1.6	0.7	-4.7	1.7
Luxembourg	2.4	-2.0	5.4	-1.7	-0.2	-0.2
Hungary	-1.1	1.0	0.5	-1.0	2.2	-0.6
Malta	-0.4	0.3	0.2	0.9	-1.3	-0.9
Netherlands	-0.2	-0.2	-0.2	0.4	1.2	-1.4
Austria	0.9	0.0	0.5	0.0	-0.7	-0.1
Poland	-1.7	2.3	-0.9	-0.6	0.8	-1.2
Portugal	-0.4	1.4	0.2	-0.2	0.2	0.0
Romania	1.1	0.9	0.0	-1.3	0.9	-0.9
Slovenia	-1.4	1.1	0.9	-1.6	2.2	0.7
Slovakia	1.0	0.7	0.3	8.1	-9.2	-0.9
Finland	-2.2	0.2	-0.1	2.4	-1.7	0.2
Sweden	-0.1	0.1	0.3	1.6	-0.1	-0.1
Norway	-0.2	0.4	0.4	0.2	1.1	-0.1
Switzerland	-0.9	0.3	-0.1	0.7	0.7	-0.7
* 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*
	Sep-24	Oct-24	Nov-24	Dec-24	Jan-25	Feb-25
Euro area
Total retail trade	3.3	2.3	1.8	2.2	1.8	2.3
Food, drinks, tobacco	0.4	1.2	1.1	0.9	1.4	1.9
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	5.6	3.2	2.2	3.6	2.8	2.5
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	2.0	0.9	0.7	-0.6	-0.5	0.7
EU
Total retail trade	3.0	2.5	1.9	2.4	2.0	2.0
Food, drinks, tobacco	0.5	1.3	1.3	1.0	1.1	1.4
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	5.2	3.5	2.4	3.8	3.1	2.5
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	1.5	-0.3	1.1	-0.7	-0.3	1.2
* Calendar adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the same month of the previous year*
	Sep-24	Oct-24	Nov-24	Dec-24	Jan-25	Feb-25
Euro area	3.3	2.3	1.8	2.2	1.8	2.3
EU	3.0	2.5	1.9	2.4	2.0	2.0
Belgium	2.6	0.3	-2.9	-0.2	-0.3	0.0
Bulgaria	6.8	6.1	8.2	9.0	8.1	2.4
Czechia	4.5	5.1	4.1	6.4	2.8	c
Denmark	2.8	2.4	1.6	2.3	3.1	3.2
Germany	4.5	2.6	3.5	2.8	3.2	4.8
Estonia	-4.4	-1.6	-0.2	1.1	2.8	5.2
Ireland	1.3	1.4	1.3	2.2	-1.6	2.3
Greece	-0.6	-1.6	1.1	-5.3	1.9	c
Spain	4.3	3.7	0.9	4.5	2.0	3.8
France	3.5	2.8	1.9	1.6	2.1	2.3
Croatia	7.0	6.7	6.7	6.5	4.4	2.6
Italy	2.5	1.0	-0.8	1.4	-0.3	-1.1
Cyprus	5.9	3.4	6.2	5.5	1.7	8.5
Latvia	0.7	0.4	3.5	3.5	1.4	-0.8
Lithuania	4.9	6.5	7.7	8.7	2.3	2.9
Luxembourg	21.3	15.8	20.8	11.6	13.2	10.3
Hungary	1.7	3.5	4.1	0.0	4.6	3.3
Malta	3.2	4.1	4.7	7.4	3.1	-0.7
Netherlands	0.9	0.6	-0.2	0.5	1.3	-1.2
Austria	2.2	2.7	2.9	3.7	2.2	1.5
Poland	-3.0	1.9	0.5	0.0	1.2	-1.5
Portugal	3.8	5.5	5.6	5.2	5.4	5.0
Romania	10.4	10.2	8.7	6.1	2.7	3.5
Slovenia	-1.2	-0.4	0.5	-2.0	3.0	4.2
Slovakia	3.9	4.6	4.9	10.0	1.2	-1.4
Finland	-2.7	-2.7	-3.0	2.4	-1.1	-0.8
Sweden	1.8	-1.0	1.5	4.2	3.9	0.5
Norway	-0.5	-0.1	0.3	0.8	2.8	2.2
Switzerland	1.7	1.8	1.2	2.4	2.8	1.6
* Calendar adjusted c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar and seasonally adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	Sep-24	Oct-24	Nov-24	Dec-24	Jan-25	Feb-25
Euro area	101.7	101.4	101.4	101.4	101.4	101.7
EU	101.9	101.9	101.9	101.8	101.9	102.1
Belgium	95.2	93.4	91.2	92.4	91.7	92.1
Bulgaria	114.5	115.3	117.1	117.6	116.6	114.6
Czechia	96.2	96.7	96.5	97.7	97.2	c
Denmark	95.3	95.4	95.3	95.7	95.6	96.4
Germany	99.1	99.0	99.3	98.3	99.0	99.7
Estonia	90.3	91.9	92.2	93.4	92.7	94.7
Ireland	109.3	108.8	109.8	110.1	108.4	109.9
Greece	98.3	96.0	97.9	95.0	95.6	c
Spain	108.1	108.1	107.4	109.0	107.7	109.1
France	104.3	103.8	104.0	103.4	104.1	104.3
Croatia	113.8	114.5	115.3	116.0	114.4	113.4
Italy	98.5	98.1	97.7	98.1	97.7	97.6
Cyprus	116.6	115.3	118.1	118.0	115.0	120.4
Latvia	102.4	102.7	103.9	104.2	103.0	102.1
Lithuania	104.1	105.0	106.7	107.4	102.3	104.0
Luxembourg	126.0	123.5	130.2	128.0	127.7	127.4
Hungary	99.2	100.2	100.7	99.7	101.9	101.3
Malta	116.0	116.4	116.6	117.6	116.1	115.1
Netherlands	100.4	100.2	100.0	100.4	101.6	100.2
Austria	97.3	97.3	97.8	97.8	97.1	97.0
Poland	106.5	109.0	108.0	107.3	108.2	106.9
Portugal	110.8	112.3	112.5	112.3	112.5	112.5
Romania	117.4	118.4	118.4	116.9	117.9	116.8
Slovenia	97.8	98.9	99.8	98.2	100.4	101.1
Slovakia	103.1	103.8	104.1	112.5	102.1	101.2
Finland	91.0	91.2	91.1	93.3	91.7	91.9
Sweden	93.8	93.9	94.2	95.7	95.6	95.5
Norway	92.2	92.6	93.0	93.2	94.2	94.1
Switzerland	99.6	99.9	99.8	100.5	101.2	100.5
c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	Sep-24	Oct-24	Nov-24	Dec-24	Jan-25	Feb-25
Euro area	99.3	102.5	104.5	118.8	95.0	90.3
EU	99.5	103.1	105.2	118.9	94.8	90.3
Belgium	91.3	95.1	92.3	108.2	89.2	82.0
Bulgaria	115.4	117.7	123.7	130.5	107.7	99.9
Czechia	93.0	99.5	109.3	121.9	87.3	c
Denmark	90.4	93.5	102.5	111.4	86.5	83.5
Germany	96.1	100.8	106.5	110.0	91.1	89.4
Estonia	88.8	93.1	93.2	105.9	83.5	81.6
Ireland	102.9	102.5	128.7	161.7	91.6	102.0
Greece	100.6	96.5	99.4	105.1	87.4	c
Spain	106.0	107.5	107.1	127.5	106.1	95.5
France	101.2	104.2	105.1	125.4	100.0	93.0
Croatia	118.7	112.8	105.5	119.1	93.1	91.0
Italy	98.5	102.0	99.0	119.5	91.2	86.1
Cyprus	115.9	114.2	120.6	143.8	104.0	105.5
Latvia	100.3	101.2	101.6	119.0	92.6	87.4
Lithuania	103.2	106.9	106.1	122.4	92.4	89.2
Luxembourg	125.5	125.0	132.6	145.2	122.8	117.3
Hungary	97.2	103.5	105.5	117.7	89.1	87.7
Malta	112.0	118.4	125.6	135.2	103.8	98.0
Netherlands	96.0	100.9	104.6	111.2	97.0	88.0
Austria	96.0	99.6	99.0	112.1	88.7	87.0
Poland	105.3	112.8	108.7	122.3	98.6	95.3
Portugal	108.5	111.0	113.5	134.8	103.3	97.2
Romania	119.0	120.5	124.9	129.6	103.1	101.0
Slovenia	97.7	101.3	101.4	107.8	92.1	88.9
Slovakia	100.5	107.4	108.9	125.0	92.6	91.5
Finland	88.9	90.4	91.2	107.3	80.1	76.8
Sweden	90.0	93.3	99.0	107.1	84.6	80.8
Norway	88.3	90.8	101.2	109.0	85.2	79.4
Switzerland	94.7	99.7	107.0	120.9	95.3	89.2
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 6 March 2025. The monthly percentage change for January 2025 has been revised from -0.3% to 0.0% in the euro area and from -0.2% to +0.1% in the EU. The annual percentage change has been revised from +1.5% to +1.8% in the euro area and from +1.6% to +2.0% 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.