percentage points - Source frequency: monthly · Methodology · Corrections
Supporting data for Inflation Rate (CPI). It adds detail to that headline metric and is not counted in the national scores.
Australia's contribution to annual inflation was 4.0 pp as of August 2026. How many percentage points each spending group adds to annual inflation. The contributions of the eleven main groups add up to the all-groups rate shown as the headline line. A group can rise fast but matter little, or rise slowly and matter a lot because it takes a big share of household spending. Contributions show which prices are actually moving the headline rate. Data is sourced from ABS Consumer Price Index (Cat. 6401.0), contribution to annual change. The ABS publishes contributions monthly only, from April 2025; nothing earlier is available or estimated. and updated monthly.
How many percentage points each spending group adds to annual inflation. The contributions of the eleven main groups add up to the all-groups rate shown as the headline line.
A group can rise fast but matter little, or rise slowly and matter a lot because it takes a big share of household spending. Contributions show which prices are actually moving the headline rate.
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Source: ABS Consumer Price Index (Cat. 6401.0), contribution to annual change. The ABS publishes contributions monthly only, from April 2025; nothing earlier is available or estimated.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Consumer Price Index (Cat. 6401.0), contribution to annual change. The ABS publishes contributions monthly only, from April 2025; nothing earlier is available or estimated.), updated monthly. Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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