Australia Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
3.9%
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Explore the full Australia economy15 live indicators on one dashboard, from growth and prices to jobs, trade and public finances. Updated automatically from official sources.Inflation Rate
Q1 2015 to Q2 2026
Source: OECD live prices system · CPI, all items, year on year, quarterly.
Australia Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Australia, the inflation rate rose by 1.8pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 2.1% in Q2 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 2.1% in Q2 2025 to 7.9% in Q4 2022.
Its average since Q1 2015 is 2.8%, and the latest reading is above that.
Australia is 26th of 62 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- OECD
- Series
- live
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The Reserve Bank of Australia targets 2-3% inflation. Quarterly, matching the ABS's own primary official CPI release (the ABS also publishes an experimental monthly figure, which this doesn't use).
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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