Measures of Consumer Price Inflation

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The consumer price index (CPI) is a quarterly measure of inflation published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS also publishes a monthly CPI indicator, which is more timely and includes updated prices for around two-thirds of the CPI basket each month.

CPI, Year-ended percentage change
All groups Excluding volatile items Weighted median Trimmed mean
Date Non-seasonally adjusted Non-seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted
2019/2020
Sep 1.7 1.9 1.3 1.5
Dec 1.8 1.7 1.3 1.5
Mar 2.2 2.1 1.6 1.7
Jun −0.3 0.4 1.2 1.3
2020/2021
Sep 0.7 0.9 1.2 1.2
Dec 0.9 1.5 1.3 1.2
Mar 1.1 1.4 1.2 1.1
Jun 3.8 3.1 1.5 1.6
2021/2022
Sep 3.0 2.5 2.2 2.1
Dec 3.5 2.6 2.6 2.7
Mar 5.1 4.0 3.3 3.8
Jun 6.1 5.3 4.3 5.0
2022/2023
Sep 7.3 6.7 4.9 6.1
Dec 7.8 7.6 5.6 6.9
Mar 7.0 7.3 5.8 6.6

Sources: ABS Cat No 6401.0
CPI, Quarterly percentage change
All groups Excluding volatile items Weighted median Trimmed mean
Date Non-seasonally adjusted Non-seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted
2019/2020
Sep 0.5 0.8 0.3 0.4
Dec 0.7 0.4 0.4 0.4
Mar 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.5
Jun −1.9 −1.3 0.1 0.0
2020/2021
Sep 1.6 1.3 0.2 0.3
Dec 0.9 1.0 0.5 0.5
Mar 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.4
Jun 0.8 0.4 0.4 0.5
2021/2022
Sep 0.8 0.7 0.9 0.8
Dec 1.3 1.2 0.9 1.0
Mar 2.1 1.7 1.0 1.5
Jun 1.8 1.6 1.4 1.6
2022/2023
Sep 1.8 2.1 1.4 1.8
Dec 1.9 2.0 1.6 1.7
Mar 1.4 1.4 1.2 1.2

Sources: ABS Cat No 6401.0
Monthly CPI Indicator
Not seasonally adjusted
Date Year-ended growth
(per cent)
2022
January 4.0
Feburary 4.8
March 5.7
April 5.5
May 6.1
June 6.8
July 7.1
August 7.0
September 7.2
October 7.0
November 7.4
December 8.4
2023
January 7.4
Feburary 6.8
March 6.3
April 6.8

Source: ABS