Retail sales, excluding motor vehicles and motorcycles trade, rose 10% year-on-year in October.
The biggest increase was seen in stores selling manufacturing goods, by 16% and stores selling household goods and appliances, hardware and building materials rose 21%. On a monthly basis, retail sales fell 2% in October.
On a seasonally adjusted basis, retail sales gained 1% monthly in October. In a separate statement, the Tallinn-based agency said the Estonian economy advanced 8.6% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2021, slowing from an upwardly revised 13.0% surge in the previous period, amid diminishing low base effects last year.
On a seasonally adjusted quarterly basis, the gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 0.7% in Q3, following a downwardly revised 2.3% growth in the previous quarter.
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