New Zealand GDP Growth Rate
How much the economy grew or shrank compared with the previous three months, in real terms, seasonally adjusted.
0.2%
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Q3 1987 to Q2 2026
Source: OECD quarterly national accounts (DF_QNA, table T0101) · real GDP, change on the previous quarter, seasonally adjusted.
New Zealand GDP Growth Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In New Zealand, the GDP growth rate rose by 0.8pp over the year to Q2 2026, from −0.6% in Q2 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −4.3% in Q3 2021 to 4.1% in Q4 2021.
Its average since Q3 1987 is 0.6%, and the latest reading is below that.
New Zealand is 9th of 26 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
- OECD
- Series
- quarterly
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
This is the quarterly figure Stats NZ headlines.
Data refreshed 2026-10-07. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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