Quarterly Report with 2 Year Trend

This is a report into the Australian Consumer Price Index (CPI)1 for the quarter ending 2025-12-31. The chart below sets out these results over the last 2 years.

Details

The bar chart shows the % movement in the CPI for quarter-on-quarter and also the overall index for each quarter between 2024-03-31 and 2025-12-31.

The results show that the CPI index was 0.6% in the latest quarter of 2025-12-31 and this movement was less than the previous quarter of 1.3%. This corresponds to the axis on the left hand side. The trend in CPI movements for the last 4 quarters has been generally downwards. Over the last 2 years, the highest quarterly movement was 1.3% in 2025-09-30 followed by 1% in 2024-06-30 while the lowest was 0.21% in 2024-09-30, 2024-12-31.

The overlaid line shows the overall index as 100.3 (new basis) in the latest quarter of 2025-12-31 with this being higher than the previous quarter of 99.7. This corresponds to the axis on the right hand side. The trend for the index over the last 4 quarters has been upwards always.

Compiled on 30 January 2026 by CPIChart

  1. as prepared by the Australian Bureau of Statistics https://www.abs.gov.au↩︎