# Australia Household final consumption expenditure (ABS ANA_EXP)

Australia Household final consumption expenditure (ABS ANA_EXP) was up 1.8% year on year in Q2 2026, compared with 2.4% in Q1 2026.
The level stood at 358,963 AUD million, chain volume.
That is the lowest reading since Q1 2025.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −13.8% (Q2 2020) to 15.4% (Q2 2021), averaging 2.1%.

- Source agency: Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Makrognosis code: `AU.HHCONS.Q.REAL`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: AUD million, chain volume
- Coverage: 1959-07-01 to 2026-04-01 (268 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/australia/household-final-consumption-expenditure-abs-ana-exp

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q2 2026 | 358,963 AUD million, chain volume | 1.8 |
| Q1 2026 | 357,486 AUD million, chain volume | 2.4 |
| Q4 2025 | 355,990 AUD million, chain volume | 2.5 |
| Q3 2025 | 354,377 AUD million, chain volume | 2.7 |
| Q2 2025 | 352,663 AUD million, chain volume | 2.3 |
| Q1 2025 | 349,205 AUD million, chain volume | 0.9 |
| Q4 2024 | 347,437 AUD million, chain volume | 1.0 |
| Q3 2024 | 345,123 AUD million, chain volume | 0.4 |
| Q2 2024 | 344,729 AUD million, chain volume | 0.2 |
| Q1 2024 | 345,979 AUD million, chain volume | 0.9 |
| Q4 2023 | 343,946 AUD million, chain volume | 1.1 |
| Q3 2023 | 343,760 AUD million, chain volume | 2.0 |
| Q2 2023 | 344,057 AUD million, chain volume | 3.2 |
| Q1 2023 | 342,780 AUD million, chain volume | 4.8 |
| Q4 2022 | 340,327 AUD million, chain volume | 6.5 |
| Q3 2022 | 337,107 AUD million, chain volume | 12.4 |
| Q2 2022 | 333,393 AUD million, chain volume | 5.9 |
| Q1 2022 | 327,187 AUD million, chain volume | 5.0 |
| Q4 2021 | 319,412 AUD million, chain volume | 4.0 |
| Q3 2021 | 300,038 AUD million, chain volume | 2.2 |
| Q2 2021 | 314,812 AUD million, chain volume | 15.4 |
| Q1 2021 | 311,616 AUD million, chain volume | −0.3 |
| Q4 2020 | 307,169 AUD million, chain volume | −3.1 |
| Q3 2020 | 293,650 AUD million, chain volume | −7.1 |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/AU.HHCONS.Q.REAL"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/AU.HHCONS.Q.REAL",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```