National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey

Latest release

Information on food and nutrients, diet, food security, sweetened beverages, physical activity, inactivity, and sleep in Australia

Reference period
2023
Released
5/09/2025
Next release Unknown
First release
Release date and time
05/09/2025 11:30am AEST

About the National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey

The National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (NNPAS) 2023 was conducted from January 2023 to March 2024. This survey was designed to collect information about nutritional intakes (including foods, nutrients and supplements consumed) using dietary recall and self-reported questions. Physical and sedentary activity information was collected using a combination of measured and self-reported data. 

Brief information about key statistics available from the NNPAS can be found on this page. To find more detailed information on a topic of interest, a link has also been provided to the individual topic page.

More information on Physical and sedentary activity will become available when results are released.

Nutrition

Food and nutrition play an important role in good health and wellbeing throughout all stages of life. An individual’s diet can contribute to quality of life, influence body weight, risk of disease and protect against infection[1].

The NNPAS collects data on food, energy and beverage intakes, along with a broad range of dietary behaviours, supplement consumption and food security status.

Food and nutrients

Sweetened beverages

Dieting and food avoidance

Dietary supplements

Food insecurity

Future releases

NNPAS 2023 future releases will include:

  • Physical activity analysis
  • Usual nutrient intakes analysis
  • Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADG) analysis.

Acknowledgements

The ABS would like to acknowledge the assistance and advice provided by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) and Monash University in the conduct of this survey.

Footnotes

  1. Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, ‘About food and nutrition’, https://www.health.gov.au/topics/food-and-nutrition/about; accessed 27/07/2025.

Data downloads

National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey 2023

Data files

Methodology

Scope

Includes:

  • usual residents in Australia aged 2+ years living in private dwellings
  • urban and rural areas in all states and territories, excluding very remote parts of Australia and discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities.

Geography

The data available includes estimates for Australia.

Source

The National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Collection method

  • Face-to-face interview with an ABS Interviewer
  • 24-hour dietary recall data collected face-to-face with an ABS Interviewer or via an online interview
  • Some physical activity and sleep data was collected on a voluntary basis via an accelerometer.

Concepts, sources and methods

History of changes

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