Monthly Statistical Bulletin
8.2 Consumer prices
	Annual movement (a) (b)
						2009
Country	2005	2006	2007	2008		Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep
Australia (c)	2.7	3.5	2.3	4.4		1.5			1.3
Canada	2.2	2.0	2.1	2.4		-0.3	-1.0	-0.8	-0.9
China	1.8	1.5	4.8	5.9		-2.0	-2.0
France	1.8	1.6	1.5	2.9		-0.5	-0.7	-0.3	-0.4
Germany	1.6	1.6	2.3	2.6		0.1	-0.5	0.0	-0.3
Indonesia	10.5	13.1	6.3	10.1		3.7	2.7	2.8
Italy	2.0	2.1	1.8	3.4		0.5	0.0	0.1	0.2
Japan	-0.3	0.2	0.1	1.4		-1.8	-2.3	-2.2
Korea (South)	2.8	2.2	2.5	4.7		2.0	1.6	2.2
Malaysia	3.0	3.6	2.0	5.4		-1.4	-2.4	-2.4
New Zealand (c)	3.0	3.4	2.4	4.0		1.9
Philippines	7.7	6.3	2.8	9.3		1.5	0.2	0.1	0.7
Singapore	0.4	1.0	2.1	6.5		-0.6	-0.5	-0.3
Thailand	4.5	4.6	2.2	5.5		-4.0	-4.4	-1.0	-1.0
United Kingdom	2.8	3.2	4.3	4.0		-1.6	-1.4	-1.3	-1.4
United States	3.4	3.2	2.9	3.8		-1.4	-2.1	-1.5	-1.3
OECD average	2.6	2.6	2.5	3.7		-0.2	-0.6	-0.3
G7 average	2.4	2.4	2.2	3.2		-0.9	-1.5	-1.0
Euro-zone average	2.2	2.2	2.1	3.3		-0.2	-0.6	-0.2
(a) Percentage change in consumer price indexes over previous year.
(b) Years shown are calendar years.
(c) Data only available quarterly.
Sources: Datastream
ABS, Consumer price index, Cat. no. 6401.0
Statistics New Zealand
												Update
												Late November 2009