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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 - 2026T11
Turnover 4th period 2025 5th period 2025 6th period 2025 1st period 2026 2nd period 2026 3rd period 2026 4th period 2026 Wholesale trade 244 017 275 568 264 804 231 040 268 319 272 779 261 948 Retail trade 150 922 151 919 173 608 126 580 146 692 159 359 152 291 1The figures for 2025 and 2026 were corrected on 12 November 2026 due to the omission of some units from the statistical basis. 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 - 2026T11
Turnover 4th period 2025 5th period 2025 6th period 2025 1st period 2026 2nd period 2026 3rd period 2026 4th period 2026 Østfold Wholesale trade 6 204 7 641 6 634 6 094 6 991 7 209 5 943 Retail trade 7 606 7 595 8 264 6 485 7 361 8 634 7 838 Akershus Wholesale trade 55 603 64 927 61 251 54 423 63 306 66 814 59 824 Retail trade 19 735 21 174 24 195 17 898 20 565 22 615 20 522 Oslo - Oslove Wholesale trade 71 378 78 102 81 830 66 039 75 241 72 951 76 991 Retail trade 19 058 21 366 27 038 17 787 19 445 21 559 19 637 Innlandet Wholesale trade 7 392 8 242 7 710 7 148 8 252 8 036 7 519 Retail trade 10 075 9 386 10 931 7 970 9 239 9 902 10 220 Buskerud Wholesale trade 6 526 8 344 9 075 6 897 9 264 9 633 7 655 Retail trade 9 271 9 716 10 124 7 733 9 027 10 192 9 631 Vestfold Wholesale trade 12 997 14 001 13 487 12 356 14 887 16 847 15 218 Retail trade 8 099 7 736 8 796 6 168 7 238 8 227 7 870 Telemark Wholesale trade 2 798 3 578 3 017 3 095 3 325 4 404 3 235 Retail trade 5 125 4 932 5 606 4 308 4 917 5 394 5 503 Agder Wholesale trade 6 107 10 158 3 230 5 798 6 777 7 101 6 967 Retail trade 9 610 8 609 10 069 7 289 8 549 9 346 9 775 Rogaland Wholesale trade 14 195 15 595 15 234 13 188 15 470 15 797 14 521 Retail trade 12 670 13 460 15 241 11 324 12 538 13 540 12 596 Vestland Wholesale trade 26 284 27 812 29 384 24 152 26 291 24 314 26 611 Retail trade 16 317 16 097 17 790 13 057 15 565 16 619 16 326 Møre og Romsdal Wholesale trade 11 090 12 387 10 608 9 874 11 803 12 461 12 206 Retail trade 6 701 6 507 7 463 5 356 6 462 6 736 6 634 Trøndelag - Trööndelage Wholesale trade 8 552 10 112 8 981 8 016 9 710 10 386 9 181 Retail trade 13 064 12 697 14 088 10 627 13 894 13 227 12 771 Nordland - Nordlánnda Wholesale trade 8 170 7 909 7 884 6 313 7 624 8 082 8 538 Retail trade 6 843 6 070 6 589 5 070 5 753 6 482 6 325 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa Wholesale trade 5 469 5 571 5 231 6 371 7 772 7 064 5 876 Retail trade 4 676 4 662 5 239 3 967 4 358 4 919 4 611 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku Wholesale trade 1 251 1 188 1 248 1 277 1 607 1 681 1 661 Retail trade 2 073 1 912 2 177 1 542 1 782 1 967 2 032 Svalbard Wholesale trade 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Retail trade 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1The figures for 2025 and 2026 were corrected on 12 November 2026 due to the omission of some units from the statistical basis. 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.