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
2024	May	84,095	4.1	4.7	45,057	-0.7	-30.2
	Apr	80,776	-8.0	6.4	45,367	-16.4	-9.1
	Mar	87,818	3.2	0.2	54,290	-33.4	-10.3
	Feb	85,095	6.7	12.5	81,569	62.6	115.6
	Jan	79,736	-8.8	12.0	50,155	33.1	78.4
2023	Dec	87,430	9.7	7.9	37,687	-24.6	29.9
	Nov	79,709	-4.0	9.0	49,980	-18.3	31.4
	Oct	82,993	24.3	10.0	61,141	8.5	74.4
	Sep	66,790	17.5	-14.2	56,374	5.8	53.4
	Aug	56,837	-27.5	-27.3	53,301	-5.9	44.7
	Jul	78,352	-4.8	-0.9	56,643	-20.1	54.0
	Jun	82,338	2.5	-6.3	70,922	9.9	96.5
	May	80,344	5.9	2.8	64,516	29.3	102.6
Annual Totals
2023		925,205	1.0		626,933	55.6
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.