Quarterly productivity bulletin - December 2025

Released 11 / 12 / 2025

While we are beginning to see green shoots of improvement, labour productivity is still much lower than we would like it to be. This latest quarterly productivity bulletin shows labour productivity increased by 0.2% in the September quarter and 0.8% over the year to September 2025.

The bulletin also considers what lessons we can learn from historical periods of labour productivity growth in the non-market sector, and finds that, due to challenges measuring labour productivity in the sector, we cannot evaluate the non-market sector on its productivity record alone.