New Zealand Inflation Rate, Quarter on Quarter
How much consumer prices moved compared with the quarter before.
1.5%
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Q2 2000 to Q2 2026
Source: OECD prices database · Stats NZ's all-items consumers price index, quarterly; change on the previous quarter, to one decimal place.
New Zealand Inflation Rate, Quarter on Quarter in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In New Zealand, the inflation rate, quarter on quarter rose by 1.0pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 0.5% in Q2 2025.
It is the highest reading since Q3 2023.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.4% in Q2 2024 to 2.2% in Q3 2021.
Its average since Q2 2000 is 0.7%, and the latest reading is above that.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- OECD
- Series
- prices
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-07. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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