Manufacturing and Trade--Sales and Inventories statistics


Item	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998


Sales, average monthly	327	356	348	369	410	423	430	458	497	527	546	543	567	595	639	684	717	752	778
Manufacturing	154	168	163	173	191	195	195	206	225	237	243	240	250	261	279	300	310	327	338
Retail trade	80	87	89	98	107	115	121	128	138	147	154	155	163	174	188	197	209	218	229
Merchant wholesalers	93	101	95	99	112	113	115	123	135	144	150	148	154	161	172	188	199	207	211

Inventories ¹	509	546	574	590	650	664	663	710	767	815	841	835	843	870	934	995	1,013	1,060	1,095
Manufacturing	265	283	312	312	340	335	323	338	369	391	405	391	383	384	405	431	437	456	467
Retail trade	121	133	135	148	168	182	187	208	219	237	240	243	252	269	294	310	321	330	341
Merchant wholesalers	123	130	127	130	142	147	154	164	179	187	196	200	208	217	235	254	256	274	287

Inventory-sales ratios ²	1.56	1.53	1.67	1.56	1.53	1.56	1.55	1.50	1.49	1.52	1.52	1.53	1.48	1.44	1.41	1.43	1.41	1.38	1.39
Manufacturing	1.72	1.69	1.95	1.78	1.73	1.73	1.68	1.59	1.57	1.63	1.65	1.65	1.54	1.47	1.41	1.41	1.40	1.37	1.38
Retail trade	1.52	1.53	1.49	1.44	1.49	1.52	1.56	1.55	1.54	1.58	1.56	1.54	1.52	1.51	1.50	1.55	1.51	1.49	1.46
Merchant wholesalers	1.32	1.28	1.36	1.28	1.23	1.28	1.32	1.29	1.30	1.28	1.29	1.33	1.32	1.32	1.31	1.32	1.29	1.28	1.33

NA Not available.
1 Seasonally adjusted end-of-year data. See text, this section.
2 End-of-year seasonally adjusted inventories to seasonally adjusted sales.

Source: U.S. Council of Economic Advisors, Economic Report of the President, annual.http://w3.access.gpo.gov/eop/index.html

https://allcountries.org/uscensus/894_manufacturing_and_trade_sales_and_inventories.html

These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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894. Manufacturing and Trade--Sales and Inventories