finance.foundation / Countries / Australia
Jurisdiction · AU · AUD
Australia
- ISO code
- AU
- Currency
- AUD
- Monetary authority
- Reserve Bank of Australia
- Policy regime
- Independent, inflation target of 2–3% on average over the cycle
- GDP
- $1.8tn (2025, World Bank)
- Real GDP growth
- 1.4% (2025, World Bank)
- Inflation (CPI)
- 2.9% (2025, World Bank)
- Population
- 27.6m (2025, World Bank)
- Listed domestic companies
- 1,782 (2025, World Bank)
- Listed market cap
- 114% of GDP (2025, World Bank)
- Credit to private sector
- 134% of GDP (2025, World Bank)
Annual indicators from World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0), each shown with its observation year — refreshed daily, but the underlying series are annual and only move when the World Bank publishes.
Current readings · refreshed every 3 hours
4.35% Australia cash rate · 2026-08-01 · BIS
These are Australia’s own readings, each on the observation date shown. They are a different kind of figure from the World Bank series above, which are annual and only move when the World Bank publishes.
Covered companies — Australia
| Company | Ticker | Exchange | Sector | Mkt cap ≈ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BHPDiversified mining (iron ore, copper) | BHP | Australian Securities Exchange | Materials | $246bn |
| Commonwealth BankRetail & commercial banking | CBA | Australian Securities Exchange | Financials | $189.3bn |
| CSLPlasma therapies & vaccines | CSL | Australian Securities Exchange | Healthcare | $59.4bn |
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
# this page as data
GET https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/australia
JSONCSV No key, CORS enabled — paste any of these straight into a notebook.
Code to fetch it
curl
curl -s https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/australia
Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/australia", timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
JavaScript
const r = await fetch("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/australia");
if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.status);
const data = await r.json();
pandas
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/australia.csv")