Inflation rate
Source: Stats NZ · series CPIQ.SE9A · calculated by Money Snap from the published series, not published as this figure by the source · 60 published readings held, 2011 Q3 to 2026 Q2 · Open the source table · Calculated by Money Snap from the published all-groups index — Stats NZ publishes the index, not a year-on-year percentage.
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. Stats NZ publishes consumer prices as index levels, so every inflation rate here is calculated from the published index rather than read as a percentage; the source line on each says so. Gross domestic product annual growth is published as a percentage and is read, not derived. The freshest reading here is 2026 Q2 and the slowest 2026 Q1. Always check the official release before relying on a figure.
A narrower table, and why
Every figure below is reproduced from the data file Stats NZ attaches to its own releases. Money Snap adds no forecasts and no gap filling — but New Zealand offers less machine-readable data than the other markets on this site, and this page reflects that honestly.
Stats NZ has no data API
Its open data service returns a server error, its older statistics portal no longer resolves, and Infoshare is an interactive application with no stable address. What does work is the spreadsheet-style CSV attached to each release. This page is built from those files, which is why it covers the families whose file names can be found reliably and no others.
Inflation rates here are calculated
Stats NZ publishes the Consumers Price Index as index levels, not as percentage changes. Every inflation rate on this page is therefore worked out from the published index by comparing each quarter with the same quarter a year earlier. That is the standard calculation, but it is arithmetic done here rather than a number Stats NZ published, and each row says so.
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 — faster housing inflation hurts a renter and can suit an owner — so the colour never implies good or bad.
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
From the data files Stats NZ attaches to its Consumers Price Index and gross domestic product releases. The source line under each chart names the Stats NZ series reference the figure came from and links to the release file it was read out of, so any number here can be traced back to the record it reproduces.
Important Disclaimer
For educational and informational purposes only. This page reproduces economic statistics published by Stats NZ. Index levels are presented as published. Inflation rates are calculated from those published index levels and are labelled as calculated. Money Snap adds no forecasts or estimates.
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Official data sources
Every figure above is dated individually by the quarter it refers to and links to the Stats NZ release file it was read from. Inflation rates are calculated from the published index, not read as published percentages.