Retail and Wholesale Trade

These industries are involved in selling consumer goods and related service to the general public. Statistics Canada releases monthly sales information, as well as detailed annual financial statistics for this sector.

Northwest Territories
Retail Sales and Wholesale Trade
Monthly: $thousands (Raw)

		Retail			Wholesale
		All Stores (Raw) (V1446860156)	% Change from Prev Period	% Change from Prev Year	Total Sales (Raw) (V1545665352)	% Change from Prev Period	% Change from Prev Year
2025	May	87,564	0.7	2.5	30,709	33.5	-17.6
	Apr	86,972	-5.8	7.4	22,999	-31.6	-37.8
	Mar	92,326	7.9	3.9	33,604	23.6	-22.2
	Feb	85,577	1.3	-0.8	27,194	9.2	-19.1
	Jan	84,518	-6.1	6.2	24,906	-2.0	-6.6
2024	Dec	89,980	9.2	2.9	25,410	-10.2	7.7
	Nov	82,368	-5.8	3.3	28,309	-1.4	8.0
	Oct	87,408	14.2	5.3	28,706	-32.5	-8.0
	Sep	76,527	-7.4	14.6	42,497	43.7	75.6
	Aug	82,603	-2.7	45.3	29,575	-9.0	37.0
	Jul	84,869	3.4	8.3	32,497	6.1	25.2
	Jun	82,103	-3.9	-0.3	30,624	-17.8	-37.0
	May	85,435	5.5	6.3	37,257	0.8	1.2
Annual Totals
2024		1,006,896	8.8		395,325	6.5
2023		925,205	1.0		371,164	-7.9
2022		916,465	-1.6		402,843	40.9
2021		931,179	4.1		285,838	-18.3
2020		894,434	9.8		349,952	-40.4
2019		814,388	-1.4		587,172	-14.6
2018		825,533	3.0		687,637	5.7

Downloadable Data

Table 1	Retail Trade by Province and Territory
Table 2	Wholesale Trade by Province and Territory
Table 3	NWT Annual Retail and Wholesale Financial Statistics (1999-2023)

For more detailed information on retail sales or wholesale trade in the Northwest Territories or for comparisons with Canada or other provincial or territorial jurisdictions see TSR System.