index (ABS CPI) - Source frequency: quarterly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's electricity price index (cpi) was 114.7 index (ABS CPI) as of April 2026. ABS Consumer Price Index for electricity — the price households pay for electricity. Published as an index number (the ABS CPI reference period = 100), not a price in cents per kWh. Electricity costs affect household budgets and business competitiveness. Australia has among the highest electricity prices in the OECD. Data is sourced from ABS Consumer Price Index (Cat. 6401.0) — Electricity sub-index, quarterly (national) and updated quarterly.
ABS Consumer Price Index for electricity — the price households pay for electricity. Published as an index number (the ABS CPI reference period = 100), not a price in cents per kWh.
Electricity costs affect household budgets and business competitiveness. Australia has among the highest electricity prices in the OECD.
Lower is better
Source: ABS Consumer Price Index (Cat. 6401.0) — Electricity sub-index, quarterly (national)
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Consumer Price Index (Cat. 6401.0) — Electricity sub-index, quarterly (national)), updated quarterly. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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