Producer Price Indexes, Australia

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Measures price change of goods and services as they leave or enter the production process

Reference period
June 2025
Released
1/08/2025
Release date and time
01/08/2025 11:30am AEST

Key statistics

Final demand (excluding exports)

  • Rose 0.7% this quarter.
  • Rose 3.4% over the past twelve months.

What are the Producer Price Indexes?

What is Final demand?

Quarterly overview

Final demand rose 0.7% this quarter, and 3.4% through the year to June quarter 2025. Annual and quarterly price growth continues to ease, with this being the lowest annual growth since September quarter 2021. 

The rise was largely driven by increased prices for residential rents received by Property operators. The pace of Property operators’ growth has slowed notably over the past year. The Latest insights into the rental market article, which analyses a large dataset of rental properties used to compile the Consumer Price Index (CPI), provides more detail on how rental market characteristics and average size of annual rent increases have shifted following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Increased labour costs also contributed to the rise in Final demand this quarter due to a combination of annual wage rises tied to enterprise agreements, and continued demand for skilled labour influencing higher prices across industries, including Construction.

A seasonal reduction in demand across many Service industries during the winter months, together with lower fuel prices, partially offset the rise.

The main contributors to the quarterly growth in Final demand were:

  • Property operators (+1.1%), due to high demand and rising rents for residential properties.
  • Other food product manufacturing (+8.4%), driven by strong international demand for coffee, as well as meat products.

Partially offsetting the rise were price falls in:

  • Petroleum refining (-9.0%), driven by crude oil prices dropping to a four-year low.

Construction

Input to the House construction industry

Output of the Construction industry

Mining

Input to the Coal mining industry

Output of the Mining industry

Manufacturing

Input to the Manufacturing industry

Output of the Manufacturing industry

Services

Output of the Services industries

Analytical series

Childcare Services Cost Index

Data downloads

Data files
Data files

Data Explorer datasets

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Final demand

Construction

Mining industries

Manufacturing

Services

Analytical series

Previous catalogue number

This release previously used catalogue number 6427.0.

Post release changes

01/08/2025

The June quarter 2025 Datacubes (within Data Downloads) were incorrectly linked, and have been amended since their release in this publication.

Table 5, Table 28, Table 29 and Table 30 .xlsx downloads now link to their relevant data.

Using price indexes

Price indexes in contracts

Price indexes published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) provide summary measures of the movements in various categories of prices over time. They are published primarily for use in government economic analysis. Price indexes are also often used in contracts by businesses and government to adjust payments and/or charges to take account of changes in categories of prices (Indexation Clauses).

Use of Price Indexes in Contracts sets out a range of issues that should be taken into account by parties considering including an Indexation Clause in a contract using an ABS published price index.

Methodology

Scope

The quarterly PPI measures the change in prices of goods and services in Australia as they leave or enter the production process. More details on scope of each index can be found under Indexes

Geography

Producer Price Indexes are available at the national level, and state or capital city level for selected indexes

Source

Prices for a range of goods and services are collected from a sample of businesses undertaking economic activity in Australia, and supplemented by using internal ABS data sources and publicly available administrative data

Collection method

Prices are collected via a webform based tailored survey questionnaire

Concepts, sources and methods

Descriptions of the underlying concepts and methods used are available in the PPI and ITPI Concepts, Sources and Methods 

History of changes

  • Childcare Services Cost Index released December quarter 2024
  • For a detailed list refer to History of changes  
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