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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)
(V52367333)
% Change from Prev Period
% Change from Prev Year
Total Sales (Raw)
(V52367804)
% Change from Prev Period
% Change from Prev Year
 
  2023 Jan #NA #NA #NA 28,240 -2.7 25.4
 
  2022 Dec 78,154 12.0 -2.3 29,016 -23.7 31.0
  Nov 69,799 -2.0 -2.5 38,051 8.5 75.0
  Oct 71,243 -2.9 2.3 35,067 -4.6 46.0
  Sep 73,356 -0.2 6.7 36,747 -0.3 44.7
  Aug 73,531 -1.0 0.1 36,840 0.1 50.4
  Jul 74,258 -9.6 -5.4 36,790 2.0 60.4
  Jun 82,163 12.6 3.5 36,086 13.3 46.9
  May 72,946 4.5 4.9 31,851 -2.8 51.1
  Apr 69,824 -10.1 -8.9 32,758 -14.0 19.0
  Mar 77,685 26.1 -10.6 38,109 31.4 4.2
  Feb 61,617 4.3 -9.4 29,000 28.7 87.2
  Jan 59,051 -26.2 -11.0 22,528 1.7 13.2
 
   
Annual Totals    
   
2020861,27711.0349,952-40.4
2019775,925-1.4587,172-14.6
2018786,7222.3687,6375.7
2017768,8032.0650,283-5.6
2016753,548-8.3689,1067.2
2015821,5215.3643,095-6.7
2014780,5062.8689,1973.4
2013759,3770.8666,262-5.5
2012753,5763.6705,23314.0
   

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 (1999-2021)

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.

 
 
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