Selected price indexes (SPI) provide monthly price changes for a selection of goods and services that New Zealand households purchase.
Key facts
The following table sets out the key percentage changes in monthly and annual prices. We compare May 2026 with April 2026 for the monthly percentage change, and May 2026 with May 2025 for the annual percentage change.
Group, subgroup, class, item, or selected section |
Monthly percentage change |
Annual percentage change |
Food group |
1.0 |
3.2 |
Fruit and vegetables |
2.5 |
2.7 |
Meat, poultry, and fish |
0.9 |
6.9 |
Grocery food |
1.0 |
2.4 |
Non-alcoholic beverages |
-0.2 |
1.2 |
Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food |
0.7 |
3.3 |
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco group |
0.7 |
2.5 |
Alcoholic beverages |
1.0 |
0.9 |
Cigarettes and tobacco |
0.1 |
5.6 |
Housing and household utilities group |
... |
... |
Stock measure of rental property |
-0.1 |
0.3 |
Flow measure of rental property |
-0.6 |
0.7 |
Electricity |
1.4 |
12.1 |
Gas |
0.5 |
10.5 |
Transport group |
... |
... |
Petrol |
-3.8 |
28.7 |
Diesel |
-11.4 |
76.8 |
Domestic air transport |
-11.4 |
2.8 |
International air transport |
-5.5 |
8.2 |
Recreation and culture group |
... |
... |
Domestic accommodation |
-7.3 |
1.7 |
International accommodation |
6.9 |
-0.5 |
Symbol: ... not applicable |
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Source: Stats NZ |
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Provisional rent price index data
The stock and flow measures of rental property prices for April 2026 have been updated. The figures for the April and May 2026 months are provisional due to the timing and completeness of the final input dataset becoming available. Data will be updated in the June 2026 selected price indexes release if required.
More data
Use Infoshare to access time-series data. For this release, select the following categories:
Subject category: Economic indicators
Group: Consumers price index - CPI
Definitions and metadata
Selected price indexes - DataInfo+ gives general methodology used to produce the selected price indexes and related metadata.
Technical enquiries
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Next release
Selected price indexes: June 2026 will be released on 17 July 2026.
