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
Inflation rate
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.
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.
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.
Where these figures show up
Several of these series feed the Money Snap calculators directly. Open the one that matches what you are working out.
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.
An automated job re-reads the ABS and rewrites a figure only when a newer reference period has been published for it. If nothing has moved, nothing on the page changes. Because the ABS API carries no release date, the page never claims one — it shows the reference period, which is the only freshness fact the ABS actually publishes.
The ABS now treats the monthly Consumer Price Index as its headline measure, and it is what the ABS Data API serves by default. It is also the more current of the two: the monthly series lands within weeks of the reference month while the quarterly one follows the quarter. The quarterly series is still published and still valid; this page simply uses the more frequent one throughout so every row moves on the same cadence.
The ABS discontinued its Retail Trade series in June 2025. The Monthly Household Spending Indicator is the official replacement, and it is what this page shows. The two are not interchangeable: household spending covers a much broader basket, so the levels are not comparable with the old retail turnover figures.
The ABS Residential Property Price Index was discontinued after the December quarter of 2021 and has no official successor. Rather than leave a frozen index on the page or borrow a private index, this page carries the ABS mean price of residential dwellings. That is a valuation of the housing stock rather than a price index, so it answers a slightly different question and is labelled as such.
The ABS Data API serves the dwelling approvals series in original terms only; the seasonally adjusted version is published in the spreadsheet release rather than through the API. The figure here is therefore the original series, and it is labelled that way rather than being passed off as seasonally adjusted.
Yes, routinely. The national accounts, trade and labour force figures are commonly restated as fuller data arrives, and indices are periodically rebased to a newer reference year. A number shown here reflects the most recent release Money Snap has read; earlier periods may since have been revised.
This page carries economic statistics — what the economy did. A rates page carries the rates that price your own money: the Reserve Bank cash rate, mortgage and term deposit rates, and government bond yields. Those come from the Reserve Bank of Australia rather than the ABS, and they are kept separate for that reason.
Important Disclaimer
For educational and informational purposes only. This page reproduces economic statistics published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Figures are presented as published, with no adjustment, forecast or estimate added by Money Snap.
No warranty of accuracy. While Money Snap takes reasonable care to reproduce official figures faithfully, this page is provided "as is" without any express or implied warranty as to accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or fitness for any particular purpose. Statistics are revised: the ABS routinely restates earlier periods, and an indicator shown here may since have been revised or rebased. Always verify against the official release before relying on a figure.
Not financial advice. Economic statistics describe what has already happened in the wider economy. They say nothing about any individual’s circumstances, and nothing on this page constitutes financial, tax or legal advice, nor does use of this page create an advisory relationship. Direction indicators describe movement in a published number and are not a recommendation. For decisions, obtain advice from an Australian Financial Services licensee.
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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.