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Australia economic indicators

The Australian figures the Bureau of Statistics publishes as a time series, in one table — prices, GDP, labour, household spending, trade, housing and population. 21 series · newest reading Jul 2026 · each series carries its own period, because the ABS releases them on different schedules.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Prices

Inflation rate

3.5%Percent−0.3 pp vs previous
4.8
4.0
3.3
2.5
1.7
Apr 2025
Jul 2025
Oct 2025
Jan 2026
Apr 2026
Jul 2026
Previous
3.8%
12-month high
4.6%
12-month low
3.2%
Range over 16 readings held
1.9% – 4.6%
Published
Monthly · Jul 2026

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics · series CPI 3.10001.10.50.M · 16 published readings held, Apr 2025 to Jul 2026 · Open the source table · Year-on-year change in the monthly Consumer Price Index, all groups.

Indicator
Latest
Previous
Change
Trend
Range
Unit
Period
Inflation ratePrices · MonthlyOpen calculator3.5%3.8%−0.3 pp3.24.6PercentJul 2026
Consumer Price IndexPrices · MonthlyOpen calculator103.1102.0+1.099.6103.1IndexJul 2026
Trimmed mean inflationPrices · MonthlyOpen calculator3.6%3.6%No change3.13.6PercentJul 2026
GDP growth rateGDP · Quarterly0.4%0.3%+0.1 pp0.30.9Percent2026 Q2
GDP, chain volumeGDP · Quarterly699,461696,539+2,922688,271699,461AUD million2026 Q2
GDP at current pricesGDP · Quarterly742,502736,777+5,725718,591742,502AUD million2026 Q2
Unemployment rateLabour · Monthly4.5%4.4%No change4.14.5PercentJul 2026
Employed personsLabour · Monthly14,807.214,823.1−15.814,60114,823Thousand personsJul 2026
Participation rateLabour · Monthly66.9%67.0%−0.2 pp66.667.0PercentJul 2026
Wage Price Index growthLabour · QuarterlyOpen calculator3.2%3.2%No change3.23.4Percent2026 Q2
Average weekly earningsLabour · Half-yearlyOpen calculator2,156.502,129.00+27.50730.902,156.50Australian dollarsMay 2026
Household spending, monthly growthConsumer · MonthlyOpen calculator1.1%1.0%+0.1 pp-1.01.7PercentJul 2026
Household spending, annual growthConsumer · MonthlyOpen calculator7.5%6.9%+0.6 pp3.37.5PercentJul 2026
Household spendingConsumer · MonthlyOpen calculator82,33881,478+86076,95882,338AUD millionJul 2026
Balance on goodsTrade · Monthly1,9232,341−418-2,3925,073AUD millionJul 2026
Goods exportsTrade · Monthly46,26147,837−1,57641,10547,837AUD millionJul 2026
Goods importsTrade · Monthly44,33945,496−1,15740,15945,883AUD millionJul 2026
Dwelling approvalsHousing · Monthly18,98119,085−10410,69519,226UnitsJul 2026
Mean residential dwelling priceHousing · QuarterlyOpen calculator1,100.41,108.6−8.21,050.91,108.6AUD thousand2026 Q2
Residential dwellingsHousing · Quarterly11,531.111,476.7+54.411,39811,531Thousand units2026 Q2
Estimated resident populationPopulation · Quarterly27,801.027,722.4+78.627,53027,801Thousand persons2025 Q4

Where a Money Snap calculator works on the same figure, the row carries an Open calculator link. Most series have no matching calculator and carry none.

Change pills and trend lines show direction only — teal for a rise, red for a fall — and are not a view on whether a move helps or hurts you. Figures are reproduced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics without adjustment; nothing here is estimated, smoothed or interpolated. The ABS Data API publishes no release date, so each row is dated by its reference period only. The freshest series here runs to Jul 2026 and the slowest to 2025 Q4. Always check the official release before relying on a figure.

How to read this page

One table, one source, no estimates

Every figure below is reproduced exactly as the Australian Bureau of Statistics published it. Money Snap adds no forecasts, no seasonal adjustment of its own and no gap filling.

Dated by reference period only

Unlike most statistics agencies, the ABS Data API does not publish a release timestamp — the only freshness fact it exposes is the period a figure refers to. So each row here is dated by its reference period and nothing else. The monthly series land within weeks; the population estimate runs about nine months behind and is always the oldest figure on the page.

Colour means direction, not judgement

Teal marks a rise on the previous published reading and red marks a fall. Whether that is welcome depends entirely on your position — a higher mean dwelling price helps an owner and hurts a first home buyer — so the colour never implies good or bad.

Two ABS series were discontinued

Retail turnover ended in June 2025 and the Residential Property Price Index ended in December 2021. Rather than carry a frozen number or substitute something that measures a different thing without saying so, this page uses the ABS replacements and labels them: household spending in place of retail turnover, and the mean price of residential dwellings — a stock valuation, not a price index — in place of the property index.

Good to know

Common questions

Every series is pulled straight from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Data API, the ABS’s own machine-readable service. The source line under each chart names the exact dataflow and series key the figure came from, and links to that series in the API, so any number here can be traced back to the ABS record it reproduces.

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Official data sources

Every figure above is dated individually by its ABS reference period. The ABS Data API publishes no release timestamp, so no single verification date applies to the page.