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) (V52367804)	% Change from Prev Period	% Change from Prev Year
2025	Jan	83,828	-6.3	5.1	0	0.0	-100.0
2024	Dec	89,427	9.9	2.3	0	-100.0	-100.0
	Nov	81,383	-3.3	2.1	36,889	1.1	2.5
	Oct	84,132	11.2	1.4	36,487	-28.2	-1.0
	Sep	75,638	-7.0	13.2	50,818	36.8	64.4
	Aug	81,362	-3.0	43.1	37,136	-4.7	22.3
	Jul	83,921	3.0	7.1	38,978	10.1	27.9
	Jun	81,447	-4.4	-1.1	35,406	-19.5	-34.8
	May	85,229	5.5	6.1	43,982	-1.9	-8.5
	Apr	80,776	-8.0	6.4	44,817	-17.4	22.0
	Mar	87,818	3.2	0.2	54,290	16.9	7.7
	Feb	85,095	6.7	12.5	46,446	18.1	36.5
	Jan	79,736	-8.8	12.0	39,342	36.8	48.3
Annual Totals
2023		925,205	1.0		443,381	10.1
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
2017		801,640	0.0		650,283	-5.6

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 (1999-2022)

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.