Figures are based on the "Census of Commerce" and the "Economic Census for Business Activity" by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
According to the source, the industrial classification change in 1991 and 2014, businesses subject to the survey change in 1999 and investigating method change in 2014, these changes are the cause of discontinuities in the data.
Values have been rounded.
In 2021, the number of retail stores in Japan continued to decline, reaching around 880 thousand. Even though the sales of the retail sector showed an upward trend in recent years, the number of physical sales points declined steadily.
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