Selected price indexes (SPI) provide monthly price changes for a selection of goods and services that New Zealand households purchase.
This release includes a correction to the series ‘Distribution of national item-level index movements’ from March 2025 to July 2025 – see table 4 of Selected price indexes: July 2025 under download data. Changes to this analytical series do not impact any indexes.
Key facts
The following table sets out the key percentage changes in monthly and annual prices. We compare August 2025 with July 2025 for the monthly percentage change, and August 2025 with August 2024 for the annual percentage change.
Group, subgroup, class, item, or selected section | Monthly percentage change | Annual percentage change |
Food group | 0.3 | 5.0 |
Fruit and vegetables | 0.6 | 8.9 |
Meat, poultry, and fish | 1.4 | 8.1 |
Grocery food | 0.2 | 4.7 |
Non-alcoholic beverages | -1.2 | 3.9 |
Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food | 0.4 | 2.4 |
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco group | -0.2 | 2.1 |
Alcoholic beverages | -0.3 | 0.6 |
Cigarettes and tobacco | 0.1 | 4.8 |
Housing and household utilities group | … | … |
Stock measure of rental property | 0.1 | 2.1 |
Flow measure of rental property | .. | .. |
Electricity | 0.4 | 11.4* |
Gas | 0.4 | 14.5* |
Transport group | … | … |
Petrol | -0.4 | -2.4 |
Diesel | 0.5 | -4.0 |
Domestic air transport | -4.6 | -8.6 |
International air transport | -11.2 | -3.0 |
Recreation and culture group | … | … |
Domestic accommodation | -3.3 | -2.4 |
International accommodation | -2.1 | 8.3 |
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More data
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Subject category: Economic indicators
Group: Consumers price index – CPI
Definitions and metadata
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Next release
Selected price indexes: September 2025 will be released on 16 October 2025.
