Japan Retail Sales

Japan's retail trade contracted 2.0 percent year-on-year in July 2019, following a 0.5 percent climb in the previous month and compared to market expectations of a 0.8 percent drop. Sales fell further for general merchandise (-5.8 percent vs -2.5 percent), fuel (-6.0 percent vs -3.6 percent), and others (-5.4 percent vs -0.2 percent). Also, sales of fabrics, apparel & accessories declined by 5.3 percent (vs 4.2 percent in June) and of machinery & equipment by 8.1 percent (vs 5.5 percent in June). In contrast, motor vehicle sales rose 2.9 percent (vs -1.2 percent in June). On a monthly basis, retail sales declined 2.3 percent in July after remaining unchanged in June. Retail Sales YoY in Japan averaged 4.52 percent from 1971 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 36.50 percent in January of 1979 and a record low of -14.30 percent in March of 1998.

Retail Sales YoY in Japan is expected to be 8.00 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Retail Sales YoY in Japan to stand at 2.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Japan Retail Sales is projected to trend around 0.90 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

1Y 5Y 10Y MAX

width

height

Trading Economics members can view, download and compare data from nearly 200 countries, including more than 20 million economic indicators, exchange rates, government bond yields, stock indexes and commodity prices.

Learn More Questions? Contact us Already a Member? Login

The Trading Economics Application Programming Interface (API) provides direct access to our data. It allows API clients to download millions of rows of historical data, to query our real-time economic calendar, subscribe to updates and receive quotes for currencies, commodities, stocks and bonds.

API Features Documentation Interested? Click here to contact us

Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2019-05-30	11:50 PM	Retail Sales YoY Apr	0.5%	1%	0.8%	1.4%
2019-06-26	11:50 PM	Retail Sales YoY May	1.2%	0.4%	1.2%	0.9%
2019-07-28	11:50 PM	Retail Sales YoY Jun	0.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.5%
2019-08-29	11:50 PM	Retail Sales YoY Jul	-2%	0.5%	-0.8%	0.6%
2019-09-29	11:50 PM	Retail Sales YoY Aug		-2%		1.5%
2019-10-28	11:50 PM	Retail Sales YoY Sep				8%
2019-11-28	11:50 PM	Retail Sales YoY Oct				-4%

Japan Consumer	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Consumer Confidence	37.10	37.80	50.80	27.50	Index Points	[+]
Retail Sales MoM	-2.30	0.00	8.30	-13.70	percent	[+]
Retail Sales YoY	-2.00	0.50	36.50	-14.30	percent	[+]
Household Spending	0.80	2.70	7.20	-10.60	percent	[+]
Consumer Spending	302425.60	300600.10	306054.80	150439.60	JPY Billion	[+]
Disposable Personal Income	501.52	709.20	1079.95	35.36	JPY Thousand	[+]
Personal Savings	34.00	55.00	55.00	-9.90	percent	[+]
Bank Lending Rate	0.95	1.00	9.90	0.90	percent	[+]
Households Debt To GDP	58.10	57.70	72.20	20.30	percent of GDP	[+]
Gasoline Prices	1.36	1.34	2.00	0.91	USD/Liter	[+]
Consumer Credit	331784.00	332377.00	518217.00	279358.00	JPY Billion	[+]

Japan Retail Sales

In Japan, the year-over-year change in Retail sales compares the aggregated sales of retail goods and services during a certain month to the same month a year ago. This page provides the latest reported value for - Japan Retail Sales YoY - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Japan Retail Sales - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on September of 2019.