Armenia's domestic trade up 18% in January-February 2023

YEREVAN, April 7. /ARKA/. Armenia's domestic trade upped 18% in the first two months of 2023 from the same time span of 2022 to about 622.5 billion drams (in current prices), the National Statistical Committee reported.
It said the retail trade amounted to about 233.2 billion drams, up 0.9% from the first two months of 2022. The wholesale trade grew by 31.6 % to about 359.4 billion drams. Sales of vehicles raised about 30 billion drams growing by 30% year-on-year.
Stores accounted for 81.1% of the retail trade or over 189 billion drams showing 2.3% y-o-y growth.
Consumer goods markets accounted for 4.3% of the total or over 10 5 billion drams having slashed by 8.1%.
Farmer markets accounted for about 1% of the total or 2.1 billion drams. Their share grew by 0.6% from the first two months of 2022.
Kiosk trade dropped by 5.3% to over 3.5 billion drams. Other trade outlets fell by 3% to 28.4 billion drams or 12.2% of the total. ($1 – 388.43 drams) -0-