In January – September 2025 compared to the same period of 2024, retail sales volume (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles), globally increased by 1.6% in unadjusted data due to increases registered by sales of non-food products (+3.9%) and fuel sales in specialized stores (+2.6%). Sales of food products, beverages and tobacco decreased by 1.8%.
In January 1 – September 31, 2025 compared to the same period of 2024, retail sales volume (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) globally increased by 2.2% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days due to increases registered by sales of non-food products (+5.0%) and fuel sales in specialized stores (+3.1%). Sales of food, beverages and tobacco decreased by 1.2%.
In September 2025 against September 2024, retail sales volume (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) globally decreased by 2.0% in unadjusted data due to decreases registered by sales of food, beverages and tobacco (-5.0%) and sales of non-food products (-0.9%). Fuel sales in specialized stores inched 0.7% higher.
In September 2025 against September 2024, retail sales volume (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) globally decreased by 1.9% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days due to decreases registered by sales of food, beverages
and tobacco (-4.4%) and by sales of non-food products (-0.9%). Fuel sales in specialized stores grew by 4.9%.
In September 2025 against August 2025, retail sales volume (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) globally inched 0.5% lower in unadjusted data due to decreases registered by sales of food, beverages and tobacco (-6.7%). Increases were registered by sales of non-food products (+4.1%) and fuel sales in specialized stores (+0.3%).
In September 2025 against August 2025, retail sales volume (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) globally grew by 1.3% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days due to increases registered by fuel sales in specialized stores (+1.5%), sales of non-food products (+1.0%) and sales of food, beverages and tobacco (+0.3%).