Australian Consumer Price Index: 1948 to 2026

Historical CPI for Australia

Updated: January 28, 2026

Next update: April 29, 2026

Base year: 2025=100

Year	mar	jun	sep	dec	Annual
2025	97.70	98.43	99.73	100.32	99.05
2024	95.41	96.41	96.62	96.81	96.31
2023	92.08	92.87	93.94	94.53	93.35
2022	86.05	87.59	89.20	90.85	88.42
2021	81.87	82.47	83.17	84.23	82.94
2020	81.00	79.44	80.67	81.40	80.63
2019	79.23	79.70	80.15	80.70	79.95
2018	78.21	78.49	78.83	79.24	78.69
2017	76.73	76.88	77.35	77.87	77.21
2016	75.12	75.45	75.98	76.38	75.73
2015	74.16	74.69	74.98	75.27	74.77
2014	73.20	73.57	73.88	74.02	73.67
2013	71.11	71.38	72.25	72.77	71.88
2012	69.38	69.74	70.69	70.87	70.17
2011	68.30	68.93	69.34	69.34	68.98
2010	66.12	66.52	67.00	67.26	66.73
2009	64.23	64.55	65.16	65.51	64.86
2008	62.72	63.63	64.37	64.16	63.72
2007	60.16	60.90	61.32	61.89	61.07
2006	58.72	59.65	60.18	60.11	59.67
2005	57.01	57.35	57.92	58.22	57.63
2004	55.71	55.97	56.20	56.63	56.13
2003	54.62	54.62	54.93	55.22	54.85
2002	52.82	53.20	53.56	53.92	53.38
2001	51.30	51.73	51.87	52.35	51.81
2000	48.40	48.77	50.59	50.76	49.63
1999	47.08	47.29	47.72	47.97	47.52
1998	46.51	46.78	46.91	47.11	46.83
1997	46.58	46.47	46.28	46.39	46.43
1996	46.00	46.31	46.43	46.51	46.31
1995	44.34	44.92	45.46	45.81	45.13
1994	42.68	42.99	43.26	43.61	43.14
1993	42.10	42.25	42.45	42.53	42.33
1992	41.60	41.48	41.52	41.71	41.58
1991	40.90	40.98	41.21	41.60	41.17
1990	39.01	39.63	39.94	40.98	39.89
1989	35.91	36.80	37.65	38.35	37.18
1988	33.63	34.21	34.87	35.57	34.57
1987	31.47	31.93	32.47	33.05	32.23
1986	28.76	29.23	30.00	30.85	29.71
1985	26.33	26.95	27.56	28.11	27.24
1984	25.21	25.28	25.59	25.98	25.52
1983	23.81	24.32	24.74	25.32	24.55
1982	21.38	21.88	22.65	23.31	22.31
1981	19.33	19.76	20.14	20.99	20.06
1980	17.67	18.17	18.48	18.87	18.30
1979	15.97	16.39	16.78	17.28	16.61
1978	14.77	15.08	15.35	15.70	15.23
1977	13.65	13.96	14.23	14.57	14.10
1976	11.98	12.29	12.60	13.34	12.55
1975	10.59	10.98	11.06	11.68	11.08
1974	9.01	9.39	9.86	10.21	9.62
1973	7.93	8.20	8.47	8.78	8.35
1972	7.50	7.58	7.69	7.77	7.64
1971	7.00	7.11	7.27	7.42	7.20
1970	6.69	6.77	6.80	6.92	6.80
1969	6.49	6.53	6.57	6.61	6.55
1968	6.30	6.34	6.38	6.42	6.36
1967	6.11	6.15	6.26	6.26	6.20
1966	5.95	5.99	5.99	6.07	6.00
1965	5.72	5.80	5.84	5.91	5.82
1964	5.53	5.57	5.64	5.68	5.61
1963	5.45	5.45	5.49	5.49	5.47
1962	5.45	5.45	5.45	5.45	5.45
1961	5.45	5.49	5.45	5.45	5.46
1960	5.22	5.30	5.37	5.41	5.33
1959	5.10	5.10	5.14	5.18	5.13
1958	5.03	5.03	5.03	5.06	5.04
1957	4.95	4.99	4.99	4.99	4.98
1956	4.68	4.83	4.95	4.95	4.85
1955	4.52	4.56	4.60	4.64	4.58
1954	4.48	4.48	4.48	4.48	4.48
1953	4.41	4.45	4.48	4.45	4.45
1952	4.10	4.25	4.33	4.37	4.26
1951	3.32	3.52	3.71	3.98	3.63
1950	2.90	3.02	3.05	3.17	3.03
1949	2.71	2.74	2.82	2.86	2.78
1948			2.59	2.63

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The CPI for Australia is calculated and issued by: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). CPI data is calculated and issued quarterly.