Selected Price Indexes 16 October

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 September 2025 with August 2025 for the monthly percentage change, and September 2025 with September 2024 for the annual percentage change.

Group, subgroup, class, item, or selected section

Monthly percentage change

Annual percentage change

Food group

-0.4

4.1

Fruit and vegetables

-2.5

5.8

Meat, poultry, and fish

-0.4

6.4

Grocery food

-0.6

3.9

Non-alcoholic beverages

0.7

3.3

Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food

0.3

2.5

Alcoholic beverages and tobacco group

0.3

2.6

Alcoholic beverages

0.5

1.1

Cigarettes and tobacco

0.0

4.8

Housing and household utilities group

...

...

Stock measure of rental property

0.0

1.8

Flow measure of rental property

..

..

Electricity

0.2

11.6

Gas

1.4

17.0

Transport group

...

...

Petrol

0.9

1.8

Diesel

0.9

2.9

Domestic air transport

11.0

2.1

International air transport

10.7

6.9

Recreation and culture group

...

...

Domestic accommodation

1.7

1.9

International accommodation

-3.0

0.7

Symbols:

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... not applicable

* Annual percentage movement taken from the September 2025 monthly index compared with the September 2024 quarterly collection.

Source: Stats NZ

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Subject category: Economic indicators
Group: Consumers price index - CPI

Definitions and metadata

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Selected price indexes: October 2025 will be released on 17 November 2025.

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