Australia Business Inventories 1985-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar

Business inventories in Australia increased by 1.2 percent quarter-on-quarter in the three months to March of 2017, following a downwardly revised flat reading in Q4 2016 and above market expectations of a 0.5 percent gain. It is the strongest increase since the March quarter of 2012. Inventories rose for: electricity, gas, water & waste services (5.4 percent from 1 percent), retail trade (1.8 percent from 1.4 percent), mining (+7.7 percent from -9.7 percent) and accommodation & food services (0.3 percent from -8.2 percent). In contrast, inventories dropped for: manufacturing (-1.1 percent from -1.0 percent). Through the year to the March quarter, business inventories rose 2.5 percent. Business Inventories in Australia averaged 0.54 percent from 1985 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 2.80 percent in the first quarter of 1999 and a record low of -2.80 percent in the third quarter of 1986.

1Y 5Y 10Y MAX

Export Data API Access

Please Paste this Code in your Website

width

height

Preview

Trading Economics members can view, download and compare data from nearly 200 countries, including more than 20 million economic indicators, exchange rates, government bond yields, stock indexes and commodity prices.

Learn More Register Login

The Trading Economics Application Programming Interface (API) provides direct access to our data. It allows API clients to download millions of rows of historical data, to query our real-time economic calendar, subscribe to updates and receive quotes for currencies, commodities, stocks and bonds.

Learn More Interested? Click here to contact us

Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	Forecast
2016-12-05	12:30 AM	Q3	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2017-02-27	12:30 AM	Q4	0.3%	0.9%	0.5%	0.5%
2017-06-05	01:30 AM	Q1	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.5%
2017-09-04	01:30 AM	Q2		1.2%		0.71%
2017-12-05	12:30 AM	Q3				0.61%

Australia Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	12.00	9.00	20.00	-30.00		[+]
Services PMI	56.40	54.80	57.70	39.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	56.00	55.00	62.13	30.86		[+]
Industrial Production	-0.70	0.50	12.40	-7.80	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.39	0.90	5.10	-7.00	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	-2.30	-1.90	8.70	-11.80	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	81.93	81.88	84.67	78.24	percent	[+]
New Orders	39.00	42.00	47.00	-37.00		[+]
Changes in Inventories	2069.00	208.00	4095.00	-3952.00	AUD Million	[+]
Bankruptcies	792.00	590.00	1123.00	217.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	82628.00	77943.00	82628.00	12032.00	AUD Million	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	99911.00	101950.00	101950.00	48099.00		[+]
Car Production	11193.00	11140.00	39306.00	6139.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	13815.11	13549.45	13815.11	3990.94	Thousand	[+]
Leading Economic Index	0.12	-0.15	0.54	-1.07	percent	[+]
Small Business Sentiment	-2.81	9.06	18.71	-21.10		[+]
Steel Production	448.77	431.68	819.00	238.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Private Investment	0.30	-1.00	15.60	-7.60	percent	[+]
Mining Production	0.90	5.20	25.40	-16.80	percent	[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.19	5.15	5.20	5.08	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	22.00	21.00	22.00	15.00		[+]
Business Inventories	1.20	0.00	2.80	-2.80	percent	[+]
Corruption Index	79.00	79.00	88.60	79.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	13.00	13.00	13.00	7.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	15.00	13.00	15.00	9.00		[+]

Australia Business Inventories Notes

Business Inventories in Australia measure the quarterly percentage changes in inventories from manufacturers, retailers, and wholesalers. Inventories are a key component of gross domestic product. . This page provides - Australia Business Inventories- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Australia Business Inventories - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on August of 2017.