Saskatchewan's booming resource economy helped push retail sales in the province up by 13 per cent in 2007 to $13 billion, or double the growth of 2006, according to a new report released Monday by Statistics Canada.

The province's retail sales growth rate was more than double the 5.8 per cent national rate of expansion last year. Across the country, retailers sold an estimated $412 billion worth of goods and services in 2007.