% per year - Source frequency: quarterly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's labour productivity growth was 0.0% as of October 2025. The long-term trend is broadly stable, though the recent 12-month direction is getting worse. Annual percentage change in output per hour worked across the economy — how fast productivity is improving. Combines the old level index and growth rate into a single measure. Productivity growth is the primary driver of long-term living standards. Sustained growth enables higher wages without causing inflation. Without it, wages and economic output stagnate. Data is sourced from ABS Productivity, Australia (Cat. 5260.0.55.002); RBA Table H4 and updated quarterly.
Annual percentage change in output per hour worked across the economy — how fast productivity is improving. Combines the old level index and growth rate into a single measure.
Productivity growth is the primary driver of long-term living standards. Sustained growth enables higher wages without causing inflation. Without it, wages and economic output stagnate.
GREEN = favourable trend within acceptable band of baseline. AMBER = flat or mild change. RED = unfavourable trend beyond threshold.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Productivity, Australia (Cat. 5260.0.55.002); RBA Table H4), updated quarterly. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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