Monthly Statistical Bulletin
8.2 Consumer prices
	Annual movement (a) (b)
						2009
Country	2006	2007	2008	2009		Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Australia (c)	3.5	2.3	4.4	1.8		1.3			2.1
Canada	2.0	2.1	2.4	0.3		-0.9	0.1	1.0	1.3
China	1.5	4.8	5.9			-0.8	-0.5	0.6
France	1.6	1.5	2.8	0.1		-0.4	-0.2	0.4	0.9
Germany	1.6	2.3	2.6	0.3		-0.3	0.0	0.4	0.9
Indonesia	13.1	6.3	10.1	4.6		2.8	2.6	2.4	2.8
Italy	2.1	1.8	3.4	0.8		0.2	0.3	0.7	1.0
Japan	0.2	0.1	1.4	-1.4		-2.2	-2.5	-1.9	-1.7
Korea (South)	2.2	2.5	4.7	2.8		2.2	2.0	2.4	2.8
Malaysia	3.6	2.0	5.4	0.6		-2.0	-1.5	-0.1	1.1
New Zealand (c)	3.4	2.4	4.0			1.7
Philippines	6.2	2.8	9.3			0.7	1.6
Singapore	1.0	2.1	6.5	0.2		-0.5	-0.8	-0.2	-0.1
Thailand	4.6	2.2	5.5			-1.0	0.4	1.9
United Kingdom	3.2	4.3	4.0	-0.6		-1.4	-0.8	0.0	2.4
United States	3.2	2.9	3.8	-0.4		-1.3	-0.2	1.8	2.7
OECD average	2.6	2.5	3.7	0.5		-0.4	0.3	1.3	1.9
G7 average	2.4	2.2	3.2	-0.1		-1.0	-0.4	1.0	1.7
Euro-zone average	2.2	2.1	3.3	0.3		-0.4	-0.2	0.5	0.9
(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 March 2010