Australian National Accounts: Finance and Wealth

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National, public and private corporations, government and household financial and capital accounts, and household balance sheets.

Reference period
June 2025
Released
25/09/2025
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Key statistics

  • Household wealth increased $470.1b (2.7%) to $17,764.7b.
  • Demand for credit was $86.5b.
  • Australia's net borrowing position increased by $3.2b to $17.5b this quarter.
  • Capital investment as a proportion of GDP decreased to 24.2%.

Main features

Financing resources and investment tables

Financial market summary table

Flow of funds diagrams

National investment

National investment increased by $21.4b to $179.9 b in the June quarter.

  • General government investment increased by $7.4b to $33.0b, driven by an increase in gross fixed capital formation for both state and local general government and national general government.
  • Non-financial corporations' investment increased by $9.7b to $86.6b, driven by an increase in gross fixed capital formation for both private and public non-financial corporations.
  • Households' investment increased by $3.8b to $56.0b, driven by an increase in gross fixed capital formation and partly offset by a change in inventories. 

Financial investment

Australia was a net borrower of $17.5b from rest of world (ROW). The main contributors were a:

  • $28.0b acquisition by ROW of equity issued by Australia
  • $20.5b placement of deposits by ROW
  • Partly offset by $19.6b disposal by ROW of one name paper issued by Australia

Placements of deposits borrowed by ROW largely reflected intra-group funding arrangements between Australian subsidiaries and offshore related parties.

Households

Households' $17.6b net lending position was due to a $75.7b acquisition of financial assets, partly offset by a $58.1b incurrence of liabilities. The acquisition of assets was driven by:

  • $42.4b net equity in superannuation
  • $5.8b in deposits

While liabilities were driven by:

  • $55.4b in loan borrowings

Increased contributions into pension funds reflected additional contributions made by households prior to the end of the financial year. Increased loan borrowings reflected a seasonal rise in lending for housing.

General government

General government’s $26.5b net borrowing position was due to a $20.2b disposal of financial assets and a $6.2b incurrence of liabilities. The disposal of assets was driven by a:

  • $22.4b draw down of deposits
  • Partly offset by a $5.3b acquisition of one name paper

Liabilities were driven by:

  • $20.3b in other accounts payable
  • Partly offset by $15.3b net maturity of bonds

The national general government remained in a net borrowing position for a fourth consecutive quarter. The draw down of deposits this quarter reflected net maturities of bonds issued by the national general government. State and territory governments continued to borrow funds from their respective central borrowing authorities to finance investment in health and transport infrastructure.

Demand for credit

Demand for credit table

Demand for credit was $86.5b in the June quarter, of which:

  • households borrowed $55.2b
  • private non-financial businesses borrowed $35.4b
  • general government repaid $14.5b

Credit market outstandings increased by $197.2b, comprised of demand for credit of $86.5b and revaluation gains of $110.7b. Holding gains on the shares of other private non-financial corporations were $87.9b, in line with a rise in equity prices on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).

Other private non-financial corporations

Growth in business credit was driven by loans from authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) this quarter and was supported by a continued decline in business lending rates. Stronger export revenue in the June quarter was reflected in earnings reinvested in the equity of foreign-owned resource companies. Business financing activity comprised:

  • loan borrowings of $16.1b
  • equity raising of $22.9b
  • corporate bond net maturities of $4.2b

General government

While Commonwealth government debt issuance remained steady this quarter, large maturities of existing debt securities resulted in the sector's lowest overall demand for credit since the series began in September quarter 1988. General government financing activity comprised:

  • $24.2b in net maturities of bonds and one name paper by national general government
  • $9.2b in loan borrowings by state and local general government

Households

Housing credit growth increased from the previous quarter which reflected a seasonal rise in lending for housing, driven by owner-occupiers and investors. Households borrowed:

  • $55.1b in long term loans
  • $0.3b in short term loans
  1. "Other" includes private non-financial investment funds and public non-financial corporations.

Households

Balance sheet

Financial assets

Liabilities

Household wealth grew by 2.7% ($470.1b) to $17,764.7b by the end of the June quarter. The increase in net worth was driven by strong increases in the value of land and dwellings, and financial assets.

Non-financial assets

Non-financial assets owned by households increased by 1.9% ($234.7b). The value of residential land and dwellings increased $205.2b or 1.9% with both property prices and number of dwellings increasing during the quarter.

Financial assets

Financial assets of households increased by 3.7% ($295.6b), with a:

  • $201.6b rise in superannuation reserves
  • $59.0b rise in Shares and other equity

The rise in the value of superannuation reserves and shares and other equity was due to strong performance in both domestic and overseas share markets. Additionally, superannuation reserves recorded a strong increase in household contributions, driven by a seasonal increase in voluntary contributions observed at the end of the financial year.

Total deposits increased by 0.3% ($5.6b). Transferable deposit account balances rose $6.7b. This was partially offset by non transaction deposit accounts (which include term deposit and other savings accounts), which fell $1.1b.

Liabilities

Household liabilities increased by 1.8% ($60.3b), with a:

  • $39.9b rise in housing loans
  • $0.3b rise in short-term loans.

The growth in housing loans was driven by demand from both owner occupiers and investors.

Private non-financial corporations

Financial assets

Liabilities

Other private non-financial corporations demand for credit

Other private non-financial corporations demand for credit of $35.4b was driven by:

  • $22.9b of equity raising
  • $16.1b of loan borrowings

The debt-to-equity ratio (adjusted for price changes) remains unchanged at 0.60. This reflects the stable growth in debt and equity by private non-financial corporations.

The growth in firm's loan borrowing was driven by loans from ADIs and was used to fund investment in non-dwelling construction, and machinery and equipment.

The growth in firm's equity raising was driven by stronger export revenue, which was reflected in earnings reinvested in the equity of foreign-owned resource companies.

Financial corporations

Financial assets and liabilities

Authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs)

Financial assets

Liabilities

Total financial assets of ADIs increased $87.9b, reflecting:

  • a $41.9b increase in loans,
  • a $28.9b increase in bonds, and
  • a $22.4b increase in equities.

This was partly offset by:

  • a $13.9b decrease in one name paper.    

Growth in ADI lending activity was driven by loans to households and businesses, partly offset by a reduction in loans to the rest of the world. ADIs increased their holdings of bonds issued by national general government, securitisers and central borrowing authorities, while upward revaluations were driven by a fall in bond yields over the quarter.

Liabilities of ADIs increased $188.8b, with a:

  • $95.2b increase in shares and equities, and
  • $89.0b increase in deposits.

This was partly offset by a:

  • $14.8b decrease in loans.

Strong performance of the domestic share market over the quarter led to a rise in equity values of listed ADIs. Growth in ADI deposits was comprised of private non-financial corporations, rest of world and households.

Pension (superannuation) funds

Financial assets

Liabilities

Total financial assets of pension (superannuation funds) increased by 5.7% ($198.4b), with a:

  • $165.8b increase in equities
  • $10.4b increase in bonds
  • $10.0b increase in short-term debt

Strength in domestic and international share markets drove valuation gains of $158.0b on the equity investments of pension funds. Pension funds used households’ contributions to superannuation to acquire $19.4b in debt securities.

Government

National general government financial assets

National general government liabilities

State and local general government financial assets

State and local general government liabilities

General government

General government (national, and state) were net borrowers of $26.5b. This was driven by a:

  • $22.4b draw down of deposits
  • $10.1b borrowing of loans 

Partly offset by:

  • $15.3b net maturity of bond liabilities
    $9.1b net maturity of one name paper liabilities

While Commonwealth government debt issuance was steady this quarter, a large repayment of existing debt brought the sector's demand for credit to its lowest level since the series began in September quarter 1988.
State and local general government were net borrowers of $15.5b. The state and local general government's net borrowing position was mainly driven by:

  • $9.4b in borrowing of loans

Loan liabilities of state and local general government reached record levels of $475.6b as state governments sourced funding for operating expenses, social benefits to households, and health and transport infrastructure projects. 

  1. "Other" includes gold and special drawing rights, currency, bills of exchange, derivatives, shares and equity, unfunded superannuation and accounts payable/receivable.

Capital investment

Figures in the capital investment section are in seasonally adjusted current prices.

Net lending (+) / borrowing (-)

Australia's net borrowing position fell by $0.8b to $13.5b this quarter.
This was driven by a:

  • $3.2b decrease in change in inventories
  • $0.7b decrease in gross fixed capital formation
  • $0.4b decrease in acquisitions less disposals of non-produced non-financial assets

and partly offset by a:

  • $5.1b decrease in net savings.

National net borrowing as a proportion of GDP decreased this quarter, driven by a decrease in change in inventories.

  • Financial corporations' net lending increased by $6.5b to $20.6b.
  • Non-financial corporations' net borrowing increased by $4.2b to $14.8b.  
  • General government net borrowing decreased by $3.6b to $27.9b.     
  • Households' net lending decreased by $3.0b to $8.9b.            

Notable drivers included the following: 

  • Financial corporations' net lending was driven by an increase in net savings due to an increase in dividends receivable.
  • Non-financial corporations' net borrowing was driven by a decrease in net savings from private non-financial corporations due to an increase in reinvested earnings.
  • General government net borrowing was driven by a decrease in gross fixed capital formation from both national and state and local general government.
  • Households' net lending was driven by a decrease in net savings due to an increase in final consumption expenditure, partially offset by an increase in compensation of employees.
     

Capital Investment

National capital investment decreased to 24.2% as a proportion of GDP, while decreasing 0.4% in current price seasonally adjusted terms. 
Relative to GDP: 

  • Household capital investment remained at 8.0%
  • Non-financial corporations' capital investment remained at 11.9%
  • Financial corporations' capital investment remained at 0.6%
  • General government capital investment decreased to 3.7%

In current price seasonally adjusted terms:

  • Non-financial corporations' capital investment was flat, driven by an increase in public non-financial corporations which was offset by a decrease in private non-financial corporations.
  • General government capital investment decreased, driven by a decrease in both national general government and state and local general government.

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Data files

Previous catalogue number

This release previously used catalogue number 5232.0

Revisions and changes

Revisions in this issue

There have been revisions to previously published aggregates due to:

  • Quality assurance reviews affecting the published aggregates after June quarter 2021, in addition to amendments to data collected in the ABS Survey of Financial Information, ABS Survey of International Investment and to data derived from Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) administrative data sets.
     

AASB 17 accounting standard

The adoption of the AASB 17 accounting standard by the insurance industry has resulted in changes to reported data. Consequently, some of the estimates for life insurance corporations since the September quarter 2023 have been modelled. While these series continue to be published, users are advised to apply caution.

ABS Managed Funds publication

Consultation with users and industry in late 2023 found that the Managed Funds publication and underlying collections no longer aligned with the way the industry operates and did not capture the full scope of activity. As a result, the Managed Funds publication was paused following the release of the December quarter 2023 issue.

The ABS is currently working with key stakeholders to improve the quality of our managed funds statistics. An update on progress will be provided in December 2025.

ABS survey data on public offer unit trusts will continue to be used in the compilation of associated sectors in the National Accounts: Finance and Wealth publication (tables 9 and 23). In this publication, adjustments are made to these sectors to account for scope and coverage, based on other counterparty information, though some underlying quality issues remain. Users are advised to apply caution when using these statistics and use the methodology and data quality notes when referencing any data points. For additional information please see the December quarter 2023 Managed Funds publication.

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