New Zealand Business Confidence
How optimistic firms are about the months ahead.
100.1
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Jan 1980 to Jun 2026
Source: OECD · Business Confidence Indicator (BCICP), amplitude-adjusted, long-term average = 100.
New Zealand Business Confidence in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In New Zealand, the business confidence fell by 0.7 pts over the year to Jun 2026, from 100.8 in Jun 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 96.4 in Dec 2022 to 102.8 in Dec 2025.
Its average since Jan 1980 is 100.0, and the latest reading is above that.
New Zealand is 11th of 31 countries in our Business Confidence by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- OECD
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- index
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Jun 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
100 is the long-run average; readings above it mean firms expect better-than-average conditions.
Data refreshed 2026-10-07. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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