Baltic States: Retail Trade Turnover, January–November 2025
🇱🇻 Latvia
Retail trade turnover: growth of around 3–4% year on year.
Structure:
Food retail – marginal growth.
Non-food retail – main contributor to overall increase.
Automotive fuel retail – positive year-on-year growth, supporting the aggregate.
Summary: Latvia shows balanced growth, with no single segment dominating excessively.
🇱🇹 Lithuania
Retail trade turnover: +3.6% year on year.
Retail trade excluding automotive fuel: +6.8% year on year.
Structure:
Non-food retail – strong, double-digit growth over 11 months.
E-commerce – fastest growing segment.
Automotive fuel retail – −7.1% year on year (January–November).
Summary: Overall growth is driven outside the fuel segment, which continues to weigh on the aggregate.
🇪🇪 Estonia
Retail trade turnover: +2% year on year (January–November).
November year on year: 0% (no change).
Structure:
Grocery stores – decline.
Manufactured goods – weak performance.
Automotive fuel retail – +13% year on year, the strongest segment.
Summary: Aggregate growth is the weakest in the Baltics and is largely supported by fuel sales amid pressure in most other categories.
Baltic snapshot (11 months, constant prices)
Overall performance:
Lithuania – fastest growth,
Latvia – steady mid-range growth,
Estonia – slowest growth, close to stagnation.
Automotive fuel:
Latvia – growth,
Lithuania – decline,
Estonia – strong growth.
Non-food retail:
Lithuania – key growth engine,
Latvia – supportive,
Estonia – under pressure.
Methodological note
Differences in the treatment of e-commerce and enterprise classification apply across countries.
Comparisons reflect direction and structure of change, not absolute levels. BSM © 2026
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