Selected price indexes (SPI) provide monthly price changes for a selection of goods and services that New Zealand households purchase.
This release incorporates a catch-up movement for 'domestic air transport' due to an error with route weights for the four months from January 2025 to April 2025. This error does not impact the Consumers price index: March 2025 quarter headline series.
Without the catch-up movement, 'domestic air transport' would have decreased 16.8 percent in May 2025 compared with April 2025. With the catch-up movement, the series decreased 19.8 percent in May 2025.
Key facts
The following table sets out the key percentage changes in monthly and annual prices. We compare May 2025 with April 2025 for the monthly percentage change, and May 2025 with May 2024 for the annual percentage change.
Group, subgroup, class, item, or selected section |
Monthly percentage change |
Annual percentage change |
Food group |
0.5 |
4.4 |
Fruit and vegetables |
3.6 |
4.9 |
Meat, poultry, and fish |
1.7 |
5.4 |
Grocery food |
-0.7 |
5.2 |
Non-alcoholic beverages |
-0.2 |
5.1 |
Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food |
0.1 |
2.0 |
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco group |
1.0 |
3.0 |
Alcoholic beverages |
1.6 |
1.6 |
Cigarettes and tobacco |
0.0 |
5.3 |
Housing and household utilities group |
... |
... |
Stock measure of rental property |
0.1 |
2.8 |
Flow measure of rental property |
.. |
.. |
Electricity |
2.3 |
8.7* |
Gas |
0.7 |
15.4* |
Transport group |
... |
... |
Petrol |
-2.7 |
-9.4 |
Diesel |
-4.2 |
-13.7 |
Domestic air transport |
-19.8 |
-3.7 |
International air transport |
-18.3 |
-1.5 |
Recreation and culture group |
... |
... |
Domestic accommodation |
-7.0 |
-6.4 |
International accommodation |
4.8 |
9.6 |
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Subject category: Economic indicators
Group: Consumers price index - CPI
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Next release
Selected price indexes: June 2025 will be released on 17 July 2025.
