Economic indicators available from Statistics New Zealand include statistics from the National Accounts, the gross domestic product (GDP), the consumers price index (CPI, used to calculate the inflation rate), unemployment rate, balance of payments (BOP, shows New Zealand's financial transactions with the rest of the world), overseas trade indexes, and statistics measuring imports and exports, overseas cargo, overseas debt, and the labour market.
 |
Balance of payments
New Zealand's Balance of Payments (BoP) is a comprehensive record of New Zealand's relationship with the rest of the world. |
| |
Consumers price index (inflation)
The Consumers Price Index (CPI) records changes to the prices of consumer items bought by New Zealand households, giving a measure of inflation. |
|
Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) represents the country's income earned from production in New Zealand. |
|
National accounts
Statistics about National Accounts provide annual information on a range of economic aggregates such as gross domestic product, capital formation, and government and private consumption. |
|
Prices indexes
Prices of a wide variety of goods and services are collected for use in a range of price indexes for a variety of economic sectors. |
|
Productivity
Productivity is a measure of how efficiently production inputs are being used, within the economy, to produce outputs. |