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Wholesale and retail trade sales statistics
The purpose of the statistics is to identify the level and development of wholesale and retail trade. The turnover for a given year is only final when the last period in the following year is published.
Selected figures from these statistics
- 14828: Turnover statistics except wholesale on a fee or contract basis, by industry (SIC2025) (NOK million) 2025T1 - 2026T1Download table as ...14828: Turnover statistics except wholesale on a fee or contract basis, by industry (SIC2025) (NOK million) 2025T1 - 2026T1
Turnover 2nd period 2025 3rd period 2025 4th period 2025 5th period 2025 6th period 2025 1st period 2026 2nd period 2026 Wholesale trade 193 993 198 679 180 444 214 907 193 056 178 968 209 628 Retail trade 122 202 139 765 133 135 134 900 151 154 112 533 131 995 Due to uncertainty regarding the statistical population in nace 46, this will be excluded from publication until further notice. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - 14830: Turnover statistics except wholesale on a fee or contract basis, by industry (SIC2025) (NOK million) (C) 2025T1 - 2026T1Download table as ...14830: Turnover statistics except wholesale on a fee or contract basis, by industry (SIC2025) (NOK million) (C) 2025T1 - 2026T1
Turnover 2nd period 2025 3rd period 2025 4th period 2025 5th period 2025 6th period 2025 1st period 2026 2nd period 2026 Østfold Wholesale trade 6 971 6 699 5 973 7 102 6 452 5 889 6 807 Retail trade 6 655 7 535 7 161 7 218 7 867 5 826 6 775 Akershus Wholesale trade 56 253 58 371 51 484 61 014 59 510 52 114 61 028 Retail trade 15 053 17 734 15 591 16 876 19 897 14 652 16 445 Oslo - Oslove Wholesale trade 50 314 53 285 49 456 59 263 54 077 49 120 56 733 Retail trade 17 571 18 852 17 601 20 147 23 478 16 498 18 103 Innlandet Wholesale trade 6 608 6 732 5 952 7 413 6 753 5 795 6 951 Retail trade 7 815 9 720 8 758 8 462 9 027 7 739 7 880 Buskerud Wholesale trade 7 915 8 229 5 989 7 318 7 977 6 306 8 856 Retail trade 7 337 8 255 8 139 8 240 8 957 6 800 7 856 Vestfold Wholesale trade 11 333 11 866 11 261 12 185 11 641 10 752 12 954 Retail trade 6 906 7 682 7 898 7 496 8 609 6 178 7 233 Telemark Wholesale trade 2 179 2 464 3 065 2 313 2 295 3 029 2 109 Retail trade 4 427 4 962 5 002 4 870 5 280 3 883 4 404 Agder Wholesale trade 4 758 5 182 4 987 8 585 1 532 4 329 5 318 Retail trade 6 972 7 938 8 283 7 535 8 577 6 116 7 238 Rogaland Wholesale trade 11 234 11 137 10 001 10 516 10 683 10 215 12 257 Retail trade 10 806 13 268 10 687 11 191 12 572 9 838 10 827 Vestland Wholesale trade 12 145 12 851 13 556 18 148 12 951 11 001 11 755 Retail trade 12 622 13 908 13 921 13 603 14 702 11 033 12 882 Møre og Romsdal Wholesale trade 6 295 6 147 5 539 6 546 6 065 5 837 7 028 Retail trade 5 224 5 848 5 864 5 676 6 410 4 650 5 469 Trøndelag - Trööndelage Wholesale trade 5 135 6 776 4 487 5 723 6 238 4 265 5 117 Retail trade 10 261 11 617 11 422 11 612 12 521 9 397 12 391 Nordland - Nordlánnda Wholesale trade 7 179 3 915 5 709 5 784 2 885 6 268 7 533 Retail trade 5 012 6 004 6 283 5 633 6 477 4 610 5 236 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa Wholesale trade 4 742 4 539 2 532 2 536 3 446 3 504 4 526 Retail trade 3 940 4 644 4 588 4 510 4 768 3 821 7 520 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku Wholesale trade 918 476 446 450 536 : : Retail trade 1 603 1 799 1 937 1 828 2 012 1 492 1 734 Svalbard Wholesale trade 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Retail trade 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 21 August 2026.
Turnover: Includes dutiable and duty-free sales income from goods and services. Financial revenues, public subsidies or value added tax are not included.
Starting from the first term of 2026, the statistics will transition to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 2025-09. The tables that use this standard are:
Table 14828, Table 14829, Table 14830, Table 14831
Tables based on the Standard Industrial Classification 2007 (SIC 2007):
Table 07312, Table 07313, Table 07314, Table 07315
Name: Wholesale and retail trade sales statistics
Topic: Wholesale and retail trade and service activities
Division for Structural Business Statistics
Concerns bimonthly data only: Regular publication of data divided by counties in addition to the data published at national level. Other geographical breakdown can be commissioned.
Bimonthly level-numbers and yearly level-numbers.
The bimonthly turnover statistics is initially published about seventeen weeks after the expiration of the statistical period. Revised data are then published respectively two and four months after the initial publication.
Collected and revised data are stored securely by Statistics Norway in compliance with applicable legislation on data processing.
Statistics Norway can grant access to the source data (de-identified or anonymised microdata) on which the statistics are based, for researchers and public authorities for the purposes of preparing statistical results and analyses. Access can be granted upon application and subject to conditions. Refer to the details about this at Access to data from Statistics Norway.
The purpose of the statistics is to identify the level of and the development of wholesale and retail trade. The statistics has been produced since 1995.
Users include public and private sector agencies and organisations. The National Accounts statistics of Statistics Norway rely on the timely production of the Wholesale and Retail Statistics. Other users include the Research department of Statistics Norway.
No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on ssb.no at 8 am. Prior to this, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given in the Statistics Release Calendar. Principles of communication and dissemination
Changes in the progress of turnover is compared with the monthly Index of Retail Trade. Both change in progress and level numbers are compared with the annual Structural statistics for Wholesale and Retail Trade.
The statistics are developed, produced and disseminated pursuant to Act no. 32 of 21 June 2019 relating to official statistics and Statistics Norway (the Statistics Act).
The population is all VAT-registered units within the industries of wholesale and retail trade. According to the Standard Industrial Classification (SN2025), this includes industries 46 (excluding 46.1) and 47. According to the Standard Industrial Classification (SN2007), it includes industries 45, 46 (excluding 46.1) and 47.
Units owned by central government, social security administration, county authorities or municipalities are not included in the population. The observation unit is largely identical to the unit liable to pay VAT, i.e. an enterprise with annual turnover subject to VAT exceeding NOK 50 000.
The Value Added Tax Register (VAT Register). The Wholesale and Retail Trade Statistics represent full-census survey data for the entire population.
The statistics are register-based. Statistics Norway receives data from the Norwegian Tax Administration after each reporting period via an API integration. The deadline for submitting the VAT return to the Norwegian Tax Administration is one month and ten days after the end of the reporting period, except for the third reporting period, for which the deadline is 31 August.
Turnover collected from the VAT-register is controlled against earlier received data. If the divergence is considerable, the individual VAT-unit is contacted. Information from the VAT-register is controlled against the Central register of Establishments and Enterprises and the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities.
For the bimonthly statistics the data are summed up. When a VAT-unit consists of more than one active firm, the data is being divided according to registered turnover in the last annual data file from the Central register of Establishments and Enterprises.
Employees of Statistics Norway have a duty of confidentiality.
Statistics Norway does not publish figures if there is a risk of the respondent’s contribution being identified. This means that, as a general rule, figures are not published if fewer than three units form the basis of a cell in a table or if the contribution of one or two respondents constitutes a very large part of the cell total.
Statistics Norway can make exceptions to the general rule if deemed necessary to meet the requirements of the EEA agreement, if the respondent is a public authority, if the respondent has consented to this, or when the information disclosed is openly accessible to the public.
More information can be found on Statistics Norway’s website under Methods in official statistics, in the ‘Confidentiality’ section.
To ensure confidentiality, the ‘suppression’ method is used in these statistics.
In the period 1995 to 2002 the statistics was published according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC1994). From 2002 is has been published according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2002). From 2009 is has been published according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2007), and from 2026 onwards, it has been published according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SN2025).
Changes in the statistics: Before the first bimonthly term of 2001, the statistics only included dutiable sales. From the first term of 2001, the statistics includes both dutiable and duty-fee sales.
Measurement errors (the respondent gives erroneous data) and processing errors may occur. Another possible error may occur, if there are used out of date distribution formulas to divide turnover in cases where a VAT-unit consists of more than one firm.
The County Revenue Office is contacted in cases where big enterprises have failed to respond. For the first and second time publication, unit non-response is imputated. By the third and last publication, the turnover for unit non-response is set to cero.
Another error that may occur in the VAT-register, is under reporting. This is difficult to value, but it is assumed not to represent a substantial source of errors.