Key economic indicators

Measures of economic performance including national and international accounts, prices, labour force and lending indicators

All data is seasonally adjusted data unless stated otherwise.

Trend series suspended as at March 2019 due to the impacts of COVID-19.

National accounts

IndicatorPeriodUnitValueChange previous periodChange same period last year
Gross domestic product GDP, Chain volume measures - seasonally adjustedJun Qtr 2025$m664,2110.6%1.8%

International accounts

IndicatorPeriodUnitValueChange previous periodChange same period last year
Balance on goods - seasonally adjustedSeptember 2025$m 3,938nana
Total goods credits - seasonally adjustedSeptember 2025$m44,5787.9%9.7%
Total goods debits - seasonally adjustedSeptember 2025$m-40,6401.1%11.1%
Balance on current account - seasonally adjustedJun Qtr 2025$m-13,654nana
Net International Investment Position (IIP) - originalJun Qtr 2025$m664,7154.1%0.6%
Net foreign debt - originalJun Qtr 2025$m1,426,1871.6%14.2%
Goods and services credits, Chain volume measures - seasonally adjustedJun Qtr 2025$m181,0321.7%1.5%
Goods and services debits, Chain volume measures - seasonally adjustedJun Qtr 2025$m-159,4261.4%1.9%

Consumption and investment

IndicatorPeriodUnitValueChange previous periodChange same period last year
Retail turnover, at current prices - seasonally adjustedJune 2025$m37,906.61.2%4.9%
Actual new capital expenditure, in volume terms - seasonally adjustedJun Qtr 2025$m44,1200.2%1.7%
Inventories held by private businesses, in volume terms - seasonally adjustedJune qtr 2025$m231,7770.1%0.8%

Production

IndicatorPeriodUnitValueChange previous periodChange same period last year
Income from sales of goods and services by manufacturers, in volume terms - seasonally adjustedJune qtr 2025$m108,0920.2%-1.5%
Dwelling unit approvals - seasonally adjustedSeptember 2025no.17,01912.0%15.3%
Building approvals - seasonally adjustedSeptember 2025$m16,506.5-4.8%18.7%
Total dwelling units commenced - seasonally adjustedJun qtr 2025no.45,156-4.4%9.2%
Building work done, Chain volume measures - seasonally adjustedJun qtr 2025$m39,043.50.2%1.6%
Engineering construction work done, Chain volume measures - seasonally adjustedJun qtr 2025$m37,077.16.1%8.5%

Prices

IndicatorPeriodUnitValueChange previous periodChange same period last year
Consumer price index (2011-12 = 100.0) - originalSep 2025 QtrIndex no.143.61.3%3.2%
Producer price indexes, Final demand (2011-12 = 100.0) - originalSep Qtr 2025Index no.136.61.0%3.5%
Import price index (2011-12 = 100.0) - originalSept Qtr 2025Index no.134.2-0.4%2.3%
Export price index (2011-12 = 100.0) - originalSept Qtr 2025Index no.152.9-0.9%0.1%
Wage price index (2008-09 = 100.0) - originalJun Qtr 2025Index no.156.20.6%3.4%

Labour force and demography

IndicatorPeriodUnitValueChange previous periodChange same period last year
Employed persons - seasonally adjustedOctober 2025'00014,683.20.3%1.6%
Participation rate - seasonally adjustedOctober 2025%67.00.0 pts-0.1 pts
Unemployment rate - seasonally adjustedOctober 2025%4.3-0.1 pts0.2 pts
Employment to population ratio - seasonally adjustedOctober 2025%64.00.1 pts-0.2 pts
Job vacancies - seasonally adjustedAugust 2025'000327.2-2.7%-1.5%
Estimated resident population - (preliminary)Mar qtr 2025'00027,536.90.5%1.6%
Short-term overseas visitor arrivals - original (b)September 2025'000696.5-7.5%10.4%

Incomes

IndicatorPeriodUnitValueChange previous periodChange same period last year
Company gross operating profits, at current prices - seasonally adjustedJune qtr 2025$m125,980-2.4%-3.3%
Average weekly ordinary time earnings, full-time adultsMay 2025$2,010.001.7%4.5%

NA - not available

NP - not published

. . not applicable or not available

(a) Annualised estimate from the latest available quarterly publication.

(b) Trend series estimates suspended as at February 2020 due to the impacts of COVID-19. Original series now provided.

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