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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 3rd period 2025 4th period 2025 5th period 2025 6th period 2025 1st period 2026 2nd period 2026 3rd period 2026 Wholesale trade 226 681 211 715 249 176 228 932 205 107 250 033 254 553 Retail trade 158 670 147 326 151 405 172 895 125 909 149 226 155 714 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 3rd period 2025 4th period 2025 5th period 2025 6th period 2025 1st period 2026 2nd period 2026 3rd period 2026 Østfold Wholesale trade 7 160 6 323 7 529 6 682 6 069 7 057 6 843 Retail trade 7 628 7 373 7 531 8 238 6 467 7 399 8 482 Akershus Wholesale trade 56 597 54 401 63 362 60 817 53 943 64 454 64 224 Retail trade 26 986 19 481 21 280 23 883 17 666 20 376 21 643 Oslo - Oslove Wholesale trade 69 845 65 382 74 520 72 882 62 505 74 411 77 167 Retail trade 21 159 19 047 22 097 27 662 18 037 20 132 21 254 Innlandet Wholesale trade 7 629 6 705 7 856 7 129 6 422 7 604 7 679 Retail trade 9 579 10 001 9 527 10 974 8 143 9 469 9 921 Buskerud Wholesale trade 8 259 6 117 7 970 8 664 6 779 9 253 9 330 Retail trade 9 398 9 043 9 649 9 945 7 633 10 765 9 608 Vestfold Wholesale trade 12 991 12 388 13 498 12 972 11 980 14 280 15 998 Retail trade 7 913 7 957 7 693 8 814 6 078 7 286 8 074 Telemark Wholesale trade 2 930 2 661 2 982 2 748 2 473 2 588 3 132 Retail trade 4 948 5 093 4 889 5 619 4 293 4 934 5 309 Agder Wholesale trade 5 830 5 591 9 231 2 190 5 019 6 139 6 502 Retail trade 8 770 9 350 8 515 10 026 7 250 8 604 9 287 Rogaland Wholesale trade 12 758 11 171 14 061 14 059 12 021 15 527 14 460 Retail trade 14 863 12 233 13 098 15 100 11 215 12 542 13 211 Vestland Wholesale trade 14 015 15 467 20 247 15 232 13 494 15 257 17 325 Retail trade 15 862 15 674 15 765 17 545 12 872 15 582 16 189 Møre og Romsdal Wholesale trade 7 060 6 432 7 452 6 539 6 328 8 269 8 319 Retail trade 6 323 6 440 6 378 7 285 5 239 6 350 6 584 Trøndelag - Trööndelage Wholesale trade 9 363 8 185 9 540 8 538 7 672 9 441 9 833 Retail trade 12 509 12 426 12 565 13 994 10 556 13 911 12 989 Nordland - Nordlánnda Wholesale trade 6 117 5 611 5 696 5 448 4 575 7 732 6 944 Retail trade 6 369 6 613 6 007 6 555 5 026 5 740 6 415 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa Wholesale trade 5 598 4 717 4 683 4 463 5 226 7 031 5 954 Retail trade 4 507 4 580 4 544 5 191 3 898 4 370 4 799 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku Wholesale trade 531 564 549 568 601 989 842 Retail trade 1 857 2 016 1 867 2 063 1 534 1 764 1 949 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.