Bulletins

Australia’s labour productivity fell by 0.6% in the March quarter and grew by just 0.3% over the year, with hours worked continuing to outpace output.

Australia’s labour productivity was flat in the December quarter and rose 1.0% over the year to December 2025, reversing the 1.0% fall over the year to December 2024.

This year’s annual productivity bulletin shows that Australia’s multifactor productivity (MFP), which measures how well labour and capital combine to produce outputs, declined by 0.5% in 2024-25, falling below the 20-year average.

This bulletin shows labour productivity increased by 0.2% in the September quarter and 0.8% over the year to September 2025.

This bulletin shows labour productivity increased by 0.3% in the June quarter and 0.2% over the year to June 2025. The bulletin also makes the case for corporate reform to boost investment and increase productivity.

The bulletin examines how Australians have responded to productivity growth since 1980. It finds that Australians have only modestly reduced their working hours, with the majority of the 'productivity dividend' allocated towards increased income.

This Bulletin considers the short-term fluctuations to labour productivity that occurred during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

This bulletin decomposes multifactor productivity into a frontier (the highest level of multifactor productivity achievable) and inefficiency (how far actual multifactor productivity is from the frontier).

The Bulletin unpacks the Australian Bureau of Statistics September quarter 2024 productivity statistics released in December and compares recent trends in productivity between Australia and the United States.

This Bulletin unpacks the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) September 2024 quarterly productivity statistics release and examines trends and new developments underlying Australia’s productivity performance.

This Bulletin unpacks the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) June 2024 quarterly productivity statistics release and examines trends and new developments underlying Australia’s productivity performance.

This Bulletin unpacks the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) March 2024 quarterly productivity statistics release and examines trends and new developments underlying Australia’s productivity performance.

Productivity fell in 2022-23 as record high increases in hours worked outpaced output growth.

This Bulletin unpacks the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) December 2023 quarterly productivity statistics release and examines trends and new developments underlying Australia’s productivity performance.

This Bulletin unpacks the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) September 2023 quarterly productivity statistics release and examines trends and new developments underlying Australia’s productivity performance.

The key message in this Bulletin is that the 2021-22 improvements in productivity will decrease as the distortionary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic unwind.

Features: The first recession in 28 years; Industry-level productivity performance; Structural effects of COVID-19; Decade in review: slowest growth in 60 years.

Features: A strong labour market has supported continued economic growth; The productivity slowdown; Strong terms of trade have allowed incomes to outgrow productivity over the past 20 years

This year's bulletin was released on 4 June 2019. The Commission analyses the latest ABS productivity statistics and comments on new developments underlying Australia's recent productivity performance.

This publication was released on 24 October 2017 and in this edition the Commission analyses the latest ABS productivity statistics and comments on new developments underlying Australia's recent productivity performance.

This publication was released on 26 April 2016 and in this edition the Commission analyses the latest ABS productivity statistics and comments on new developments underlying Australia's recent productivity performance.

This publication was released on 20 July 2015 and in this edition the Commission analyses the latest ABS productivity statistics and comment on new developments underlying Australia's recent productivity performance.

This publication was released on 29 April 2014 and in this edition the Commission analyses the latest ABS productivity statistics and comment on new developments underlying Australia's recent productivity performance.

This publication was released on 13 June 2013 and is for those who share an interest in improving Australia's productivity performance. Our target audience is policy practitioners and advisers, businesses, lobby groups, researchers and,…