Australia

Australia

12 plates of official data, 2006-2026

Every figure on this page comes from a publisher that names its definition — the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the national accounts, prices, labour, population, births, deaths, crime and causes of death; APRA for bank asset quality; BITRE for the road toll — and every plate is regenerated from committed CSVs, so the charts and the numbers here cannot drift apart. Australia publishes on two clocks: the national accounts, prices, labour and population are calendar-year series built from the ABS quarters, while the budget, the Government Finance Statistics and the IMF's fiscal rows are July–June years, and the two are never drawn on one axis. The Reserve Bank's own site answers 403 to this network, so the cash rate arrives through the BIS republication of the Reserve Bank's series and one credit panel is honestly empty rather than filled with a different rate.

Where things stand

The plates

  1. Four panels, 2006–2025. Australia's calendar 2020 fell 2.1% and 2021 grew 5.4%; inflation peaked at 6.6% in 2022 from 0.9% in 2020; unemployment peaked at 6.5% in 2020 and is 4.2% in 2025. Plate 01

    The Economy

    Calendar-year national accounts assembled from the ABS quarters, with the IMF's growth line as the check.

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    • macro/economy.csvAustralian Bureau of Statistics — Australian National Accounts (ANA_EXP via ABS SDMX): C/VCH.GPM.SSS, CPI, Labour Force · 2006-2025
    • macro/gdp_growth_imf.csvIMF World Economic Outlook (SDMX IMF.RES, dataflow WEO 9.0.0) — NGDP_RPCH · 2006-2025
    • world/gdp_and_reserves.csvWorld Bank WDI — NY.GDP.MKTP.CD, NY.GDP.PCAP.CD, FI.RES.TOTL.CD · 2006-2025
    20062025
    +2.0% Real GDP growth 2025
  2. Four panels, fiscal years drawn at their midpoints. Revenue is 36.7% of GDP in FY2024/25 and expenditure 39.6%; the balance reached −8.7% in FY2019/20; gross debt went from 9.9% in FY2005/06 to 51.9%. Plate 02

    Public Finances

    General government on the IMF's July–June basis, with the ABS's own GFS accounts beside it.

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    • fiscal/fiscal.csvIMF Fiscal Monitor (SDMX IMF.FAD, dataflow FM 5.0.0) general government; interest derived from World Bank GC.XPN.INTP.RV.ZS; national line from ABS GFS 5512.0 · 2006-2025
    20062025
    51.9% GDP Gross debt, fiscal year 2025
  3. Four panels, calendar years. Total outlays reached 48.4% of GDP in 2020; social protection is 11.5% of GDP in 2024; whole-economy investment runs 22.6–28.2%; public investment is 3.9%. Plate 03

    Spending

    General-government spending by function (OECD COFOG), and the investment rates of the economy and of the state.

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    • spending/cofog.csvOECD Annual National Accounts — government expenditure by function (COFOG), SDMX DSD_NASEC10@DF_TABLE11, Australia S13 · 2006-2025
    • spending/investment.csvAustralian Bureau of Statistics — ANA_EXP C.GFC.SSS and C.GFC.GGS (calendar years from the quarters) · 2006-2025
    20062024
    42.0% GDP Spending, all functions 2024
  4. Four panels. Exports and imports run near a quarter of GDP each and the balance peaked at 5.0% in 2022; China takes 33.6% of goods exports in 2025, Japan 11.6%, Korea 7.9% and the United States 7.7%. Plate 04

    Trade

    Goods and services on the national-accounts basis, and the customs-basis destinations of the goods themselves.

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    • trade/destinations.csvAustralian Bureau of Statistics — MERCH_EXP (merchandise exports by SITC and country of destination), TOT commodity, state TOT, monthly summed to calendar years · 2006-2025
    • trade/destinations_2025.csvAustralian Bureau of Statistics — MERCH_EXP (merchandise exports by SITC and country of destination), TOT commodity, state TOT, monthly summed to calendar 2025 · —
    • trade/trade.csvAustralian Bureau of Statistics — ANA_EXP C.XGS.SSS and C.MGS.SSS (calendar years from the quarters) · 2006-2025
    20062025
    +0.2% GDP Trade balance 2025
  5. Four panels. The cash rate fell from 6.65% in 2008 to 0.10% in 2021 and rose to 4.35% in 2024; inflation peaked at 6.6% in 2022; the dollar peaked at 137 against 2006 in 2012 and is 86; the ASX 200 in US dollars is 140 against 476 for the S&P 500. Plate 05

    Money & Markets

    The cash rate as the BIS republishes the RBA's series, the OECD's bond yield, and the dollar and the ASX in US dollars.

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    • macro/economy.csvAustralian Bureau of Statistics — Australian National Accounts (ANA_EXP via ABS SDMX): C/VCH.GPM.SSS, CPI, Labour Force · 2006-2025
    • markets/bond_10y.csvOECD Financial market statistics (DSD_STES@DF_FINMARK) — long-term interest rate, Australia, monthly · 2006-2025
    • markets/currency.csvWorld Bank WDI — PA.NUS.FCRF (official exchange rate, annual average, AUD per US$) · 2006-2025
    • markets/equities.csvYahoo Finance chart API — ASX 200 (^AXJO), S&P 500 (^GSPC), monthly closes · 2006-2025
    • markets/policy_rate.csvBIS central bank policy rates (WS_CBPOL) — Australia, monthly end of period, sourced by the BIS from the Reserve Bank of Australia · 2006-2025
    20062025
    3.9% Cash rate 2025
  6. Four panels, one pending. Household debt is 114% of GDP in 2025 after a 123% peak; impaired facilities run 0.3–1.5% and APRA's 2022 non-performing measure 0.8–1.1% — a definition, not an event; the debt-service ratio is 15.5%. The lending rate is not drawn: no reachable publisher carries it. Plate 06

    Credit

    BIS household credit on the canonical GDP basis, APRA's two asset-quality measures, and what servicing the debt costs.

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    • credit/household_debt.csvBIS total credit statistics — WS_TC Q.AU.H.A.M.770.A and WS_DSR household series · 2006-2025
    • credit/npl.csvAPRA — Quarterly authorised deposit-taking institution performance, Table 1g (all ADIs) · 2006-2025
    20062025
    114.0% GDP Household debt 2025
  7. Four panels. The Gini moves between 32.0 and 33.6 and the survey stops in 2019–20; the World Bank's US$4.20-a-day line reads 0.9% to 1.5% because Australia has no national poverty rate; the minimum wage is US$2,602 a month and A$931.95 a week in 2025. Plate 07

    People

    The ABS's biennial Gini beside the World Bank's, the international poverty line, and the minimum wage in two currencies.

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    • people/gini.csvABS Household Income and Wealth, Australia (cat. 6523.0), 2019-20 — Table 1.1 Gini of equivalised disposable household income; World Bank SI.POV.GINI beside it · 2006-2025
    • people/minimum_wage.csvOECD — Minimum wages at current prices in national currency (DSD_EARNINGS@MW_CURP), statutory national minimum wage, AUD per week · 2006-2025
    • people/poverty.csvWorld Bank WDI — SI.POV.UMIC (poverty headcount at $4.20 a day, 2021 PPP) · 2008-2020
    20062025
    2,602 Minimum wage, US$ a month 2025
  8. Four panels. GDP is US$1.80 trillion in 2025 and reserves US$72.6 billion; the Human Development Index is 0.968 in 2023; the Corruption Perceptions Index is 76 in 2025, from 85 in 2012, where its current method begins. Plate 08

    Australia in the World

    Economic size and reserves in US dollars, the UNDP's development index and Transparency International's score.

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    • world/cpi.csvTransparency International — Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 workbook (CPI Historical sheet) · 2012-2025
    • world/gdp_and_reserves.csvWorld Bank WDI — NY.GDP.MKTP.CD, NY.GDP.PCAP.CD, FI.RES.TOTL.CD · 2006-2025
    • world/hdi.csvUNDP Human Development Report 2025 — composite indices, complete time series · 2006-2023
    20062025
    65,130 GDP per person, US$ 2025
  9. Four panels. The population grows from 20.5 million in 2006 to 27.6 million in 2025; fertility falls from 1.91 to 1.48 against a replacement rate of 2.1; births fall from 13.2 to 10.7 per 1,000 while deaths rise from 6.5 to 6.8; net migration peaks at 19.9 per 1,000 in 2023. Plate 09

    Demography

    Population, fertility, births, deaths and the two components of growth, from the ABS's own estimates.

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    20062025
    27.6M Population latest
  10. Four panels. Homicide falls from 2.7 to 1.6 per 100,000; suicide runs between 10.8 and 13.3 and stops in 2023; road deaths fall from 7.8 to 4.5 and stop in 2022; in counts, road deaths fall from 1,598 to 1,180 and homicide victims from 562 to 435. Plate 10

    Security

    Police-recorded homicide, the WHO's suicide rate and BITRE's road-death count, each on its own definition.

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    • security/security.csvABS Recorded Crime — Victims (cat. 4510.0); WHO Global Health Observatory MH_12; BITRE Australian Road Deaths Database · 2006-2025
    20062025
    1.6/100k Homicide rate 2025
  11. Four panels. The crude death rate reaches 7.34 per 1,000 in 2022; excess deaths are 11.9% above the 2015–2019 mean that year and 4.0% in 2025; COVID-19 as the underlying cause peaks at 37.9 per 100,000 and 5.2% of all registered deaths in 2022. Plate 11

    Mortality

    Registered deaths, excess deaths against a stated baseline, and COVID-19 as the underlying cause.

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    • mortality/mortality.csvDerived from ABS Deaths, Australia (DEATHS_SUMMARY) and Causes of Death, Australia 2024 (cat. 3303.0, Table 1.2) · 2006-2025
    20062025
    +4.0% Excess deaths 2025
  12. Four panels. Arrivals peak at 27.7 per 1,000 in 2023 while departures fall to 7.8; net migration goes from −0.2 in 2020 to 19.9 in 2023; the overseas-born share rises from 24.6% to 32.0%; in persons, the 2023 net flow is about 531,000. Plate 12

    Migration

    Net overseas migration and its two gross flows, the overseas-born stock, and the count behind the rate.

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    • demography/population.csvABS Estimated Resident Population, quarterly (ERP_Q), persons, 30 June · 2006-2025
    • migration/migration.csvABS Net Overseas Migration (NOM_CY, calendar years) and Estimated Resident Population by country of birth (ERP_COB) · 2006-2025
    20062024
    12.13 Net overseas migration 2024