% per year - Source frequency: quarterly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's labour productivity growth was -0.2% as of April 2026. 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 Australian National Accounts: Key Aggregates (ANA_AGG), GDP per hour worked, seasonally adjusted: year-ended % change, derived from the index. 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.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Australian National Accounts: Key Aggregates (ANA_AGG), GDP per hour worked, seasonally adjusted: year-ended % change, derived from the index.), 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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