Press release No. 014 of 13 January 2020
Wholesale selling prices, December 2019
0.0% on the previous month
-1.3% on the same month a year earlier
-0.1% on an annual average in 2019 compared to 2018
WIESBADEN – In 2019 the average index of selling prices in wholesale trade was 0.1% lower than the average index of 2018, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).
In December 2019 the selling prices in wholesale trade fell by 1.3% compared with December 2018. In November 2019 and in October 2019 the annual rates of change had been -2.5% and -2.3%, respectively.
From November 2019 to December 2019 the index remained unchanged.
More detailed data and long time series are available in table Index of wholesale prices (61281-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.
