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Increasing Household Income Offset By Higher Housing Costs In Year To June 2025
Thursday, 26 February 2026, 11:22 am | Stats NZ
Average weekly household disposable income increased from $1,977.70 to $2,077.70 in the 12 months to June 2025, up 5.1 percent from the previous year. More >>
No Annual Change In Child Poverty Rates For Year Ended June 2025
Thursday, 26 February 2026, 11:18 am | Stats NZ
The Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018 (the Act) sets out a multi-level, multi-measure approach, consisting of four primary and six supplementary measures. More >>
Statistical Area 2 And 3 Population Projections: 2023(Base)–2053 – (Second Instalment)
Tuesday, 24 February 2026, 10:50 am | Stats NZ
This is the second instalment of the statistical area 2 (SA2) and statistical area 3 (SA3) population projections. More >>
Holiday Spending Contributes To 0.9 Percent Increase In Retail Sales
Monday, 23 February 2026, 11:26 am | Stats NZ
Spending on discretionary items helped drive an overall increase in retail activity, economic indicators spokespersons Michelle Feyen said. More >>
Electrical And Mechanical Machinery Lead Imports For Year Ended January 2026
Friday, 20 February 2026, 10:48 am | Stats NZ
Mechanical machinery and equipment include things such as jet engines, turbines, and computers. Electrical machinery and equipment include things such as phones, transformers, and insulations materials. More >>
Business Price Indexes: December 2025 Quarter
Wednesday, 18 February 2026, 10:50 am | Stats NZ
Key facts include the output PPI rise of 0.1 percent and the input PPI fall of 0.5 percent. More >>
Births To Under-25s Decline To Record Low Proportion
Tuesday, 17 February 2026, 12:13 pm | Stats NZ
Fourteen percent of births in 2025 were to mothers aged under 25 years (‘younger mothers’). This is down from 28 percent in 1995, and 46 percent in 1965. More >>
Annual Food Prices Increase 4.6 Percent
Tuesday, 17 February 2026, 12:07 pm | Stats NZ
Higher prices for the grocery food group, up 4.0 percent, contributed the most to the annual increase in food prices. More >>
National Population Estimates: At 31 December 2025
Monday, 16 February 2026, 11:43 am | Stats NZ
At 31 December 2025, the estimated resident population of New Zealand was 5,342,000. More >>
Visitor Arrivals Pass 3.5 Million
Friday, 13 February 2026, 11:18 am | Stats NZ
“The December 2025 year was the first annual period to exceed 3.5 million overseas visitor arrivals since the March 2020 year,” international travel spokesperson Bryan Downes said. More >>
Net Migration Gain Of 14,200
Friday, 13 February 2026, 11:12 am | Stats NZ
The fall in net migration in 2025 compared with 2024 was driven by 6 percent fewer migrant arrivals, while migrant departures rose 1 percent to a provisional record for a calendar year. More >>
Ready-Mixed Concrete: December 2025 Quarter
Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 11:22 am | Stats NZ
In the December 2025 quarter, the actual volume of ready-mixed concrete produced was 971,383 cubic metres, up 0.4 percent compared with the December 2024 quarter. More >>
Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fall 1.1 Percent In The September 2025 Quarter
Thursday, 5 February 2026, 11:02 am | Stats NZ
“Emissions this quarter were the lowest recorded since the start of our time series in 2010, and the decline this quarter was driven mainly by electricity generation,” environment statistics spokesperson Tehseen Islam said. More >>
Unemployment Rate At 5.4 Percent In The December 2025 Quarter
Wednesday, 4 February 2026, 11:11 am | Stats NZ
“The unemployment rate was 5.4 percent in the December 2025 quarter, the highest since the September 2015 quarter, when it was 5.7 percent,” macroeconomic spokesperson Jason Attewell said. More >>
Auckland Leads Rise In New Homes Consented
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 1:13 pm | Stats NZ
Auckland continued to account for a large share of new homes consented nationally, economic indicators spokesperson Michelle Feyen said. More >>
Household Living Costs Increase 2.2 Percent
Monday, 2 February 2026, 11:10 am | Stats NZ
After peaking at 8.2 percent in the 12 months to the December 2022 quarter, HLPI growth has continued to ease, returning to levels last seen in June 2021, when it was 2.5 percent. More >>
New Zealand’s Annual Exports Reach $80 Billion
Thursday, 29 January 2026, 10:55 am | Stats NZ
The value of total exports in the year ended December 2025 increased by $9.9 billion (14 percent), compared with December 2024. More >>
Employment Indicators: December 2025 – Information Release
Wednesday, 28 January 2026, 11:17 am | Stats NZ
Changes in the seasonally adjusted filled jobs for the December 2025 month (compared with the November 2025 month) were, all industries – flat (down 709 jobs) at 2.35 million filled jobs. More >>
Annual Inflation At 3.1 Percent In December 2025
Friday, 23 January 2026, 10:53 am | Stats NZ
The 3.1 percent annual inflation rate in the December 2025 quarter is the highest annual rate since the June 2024 quarter, when it was 3.3 percent. More >>
International Travel: November 2025
Thursday, 22 January 2026, 11:47 am | Stats NZ
Overseas visitor arrivals were 347,600 in November 2025, an increase of 26,400 from November 2024. More >>
