Australia GDP Growth Rate
How much the economy grew or shrank compared with the previous three months, in real (inflation-adjusted) terms.
0.4%
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Q2 1970 to Q2 2026
Source: IMF International Financial Statistics series NGDPRSAXDCAUQ, via FRED, quarter-on-quarter.
Australia GDP Growth Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Australia, the GDP growth rate fell by 0.4pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 0.8% in Q2 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −1.8% in Q3 2021 to 3.7% in Q4 2021.
Its average since Q2 1970 is 0.7%, and the latest reading is below that.
Australia is 28th of 45 countries in our GDP Growth Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF
- Series
- International
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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