Industry Level Indicators

Industry level indicators, including for retail trade, building and construction, agriculture and mining, and data on overall industrial structure of the economy.

Household spending

  • Household spending, current price estimates, May 2025
    Ìý Monthly changeÌý(%) Annual change (%)
    South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ 0.1 4.0
    ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ 0.2 4.0

    Note: Monthly trend current price measures. Annual change refers to percentage change between the latest month and the corresponding month from the previous year.
    Source:Ìý.

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Building and construction

  • Construction work done, real estimates, preliminary, March quarter 2025
    Ìý Quarterly change (%) Annual change (%)
    South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ 1.6 3.3
    ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ 0.7 3.2

    Note: Quarterly trend chain volume measures. Annual change refers to percentage change between the latest quarter and the corresponding quarter from the previous year.
    Source:Ìý.

  • Building approvals, percentage changes, through year, trend estimates
    Ìý No. of dwelling units approvedÌý
    Ìý(May 2025*)    		 Value of building approvedÌý
    Ìý(May 2025*)
    SouthÌýÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ÌýÌýÌý 27.9 22.0
    ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ 9.8 20.4

    Note: * Refers to percentage change from corresponding month a year earlier. Value of building approved includes residential and non-residential buildings.
    Source:Ìý.

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Agriculture

  • Winter crop production, ABARES*
    Winter crop production

    Note: * Winter crop production includes barley, canola, chickpeas, faba beans, field peas, lentils, linseed, lupins, oats, safflower, triticale and wheat. ^ ABARES estimates for 2022/23 and 2023/24, and forecasts for 2024/25 and 2025/26.
    Source: ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences,Ìý, No. 214, June 2025.

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Mining

  • Mineral exploration expenditure by State and Territory ($m)
    Ìý 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 % change % change
    Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý 2022 to 2023 2018 to 2023
    NSW 247 296 288 300 351 367 4.5 48.3
    VIC 94 113 153 219 201 152 -24.5 62.2
    QLD 304 354 408 445 555 592 6.6 95.1
    SA 76 87 80 107 165 293 77.9 285.2
    WA 1,318 1,648 1,758 2,351 2,547 2,599 2.1 97.2
    TAS 22 16 11 21 41 39 -5.1 80.5
    NT 123 133 111 154 200 228 14.1 85.1
    AUST 2,184 2,648 2,809 3,596 4,060 4,270 5.2 95.5

    Source:Ìý.

  • Petroleum exploration expenditure
    Ìý 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
    Expenditure for the year ($m) Ìý Ìý Ìý
    South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ 118 100 127 111 n.a. n.a.
    ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ 1,140 1,363 1,000 1,122 985 1,058
    Change from previous year (per cent) Ìý Ìý Ìý
    South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ -15.8 -15.1 27.7 -13.2 n.a. n.a.
    ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ -6.6 19.6 -26.7 12.2 -12.1 7.4

    Note: Derived from quarterly seasonally adjusted estimates. n.a. = data not available for publication.
    Source:Ìý.

  • Mineral exploration expenditure, quarterly
    Mineral Exploration Expenditure, Quarterly

    Source:Ìý.

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Sectoral structure of the economy

  • Share of gross state/domestic product by industry (per cent)*
    Ìý South
    ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥    		 South
    ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥    		 ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥
    Ìý 2013/14 2023/24 2013/14 2023/24
    Agriculture, forestry & fishing 4.6 4.5 2.2 2.2
    Mining 4.8 3.8 8.4 11.4
    Manufacturing 7.6 5.7 6.4 5.5
    Electricity, gas, water & waste services 3.3 3.0 2.7 2.0
    Construction 6.7 7.6 8.1 7.0
    Wholesale trade 4.4 4.0 4.0 3.8
    Retail trade 4.9 4.9 4.4 4.2
    Accommodation & food services 2.5 2.5 2.3 2.2
    Transport, postal & warehousing 4.1 3.9 4.7 4.4
    Information media & telecommunications 2.2 1.5 2.7 2.1
    Financial & insurance services 6.7 6.8 7.5 7.0
    Rental, hiring & real estate services 2.2 2.2 2.8 2.5
    Professional, scientific & technical services 4.6 5.4 6.5 7.3
    Administrative & support services 2.8 2.9 3.2 3.3
    Public administration & safety 5.4 5.4 5.2 5.1
    Education & training 5.8 5.6 4.7 4.6
    Health care & social assistance 8.6 11.2 6.5 7.9
    Arts & recreation services 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8
    Other services 2.1 1.9 1.9 1.6
    Total^ 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

    Note:Ìý * Share represents industry gross value added as a proportion of Gross State/Domestic Product. Gross value added is the value of output at basic prices minus the value of intermediate consumption at purchasers' prices. The shares presented here are based on current price estimates of gross value added.
    Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ^ Sum of individual components does not add up to 100 per cent as total Gross State/Domestic Product includes gross value added associated with ownership of dwellings, taxes less subsidies on products, and statistical discrepancy (all not shown).
    Source:Ìý.