AUD millions - Source frequency: monthly
Total monthly retail sales across all industries in Australia, seasonally adjusted. Measures how much consumers are spending in shops, online, and on food services.
Retail turnover is the most direct measure of consumer spending — the largest component of GDP. A sustained decline signals households are pulling back, which flows through to business revenue, employment, and tax receipts.
Higher is better
Source: ABS Retail Trade (Cat. 8501.0)
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 Retail Trade (Cat. 8501.0)), updated monthly. Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
See all sources and methodology on the data sources page.
