Australia - Changes in inventories (current LCU)

The value for Changes in inventories (current LCU) in Australia was -7,641,000,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6,241,000,000 in 2011 and a minimum value of -7,641,000,000 in 2020.

Definition: Inventories are stocks of goods held by firms to meet temporary or unexpected fluctuations in production or sales, and "work in progress." Data are in current local currency.

Source: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

Year Value
1960 217,000,000
1961 501,000,000
1962 -243,000,000
1963 243,000,000
1964 136,000,000
1965 565,000,000
1966 84,000,000
1967 404,000,000
1968 147,000,000
1969 737,000,000
1970 555,000,000
1971 587,000,000
1972 158,000,000
1973 -340,000,000
1974 1,260,000,000
1975 683,000,000
1976 180,000,000
1977 1,134,000,000
1978 -528,000,000
1979 1,388,000,000
1980 914,000,000
1981 428,000,000
1982 1,550,000,000
1983 -2,364,000,000
1984 1,271,000,000
1985 2,321,000,000
1986 884,000,000
1987 -1,657,000,000
1988 669,000,000
1989 3,356,000,000
1990 5,187,000,000
1991 -1,447,000,000
1992 -2,086,000,000
1993 517,000,000
1994 1,430,000,000
1995 4,457,000,000
1996 3,387,000,000
1997 4,553,000,000
1998 2,863,000,000
1999 4,801,000,000
2000 2,080,000,000
2001 1,349,000,000
2002 865,000,000
2003 -889,000,000
2004 3,765,000,000
2005 4,144,000,000
2006 -2,827,000,000
2007 1,133,000,000
2008 4,616,000,000
2009 -2,994,000,000
2010 -3,250,000,000
2011 6,241,000,000
2012 4,601,000,000
2013 434,000,000
2014 -2,372,000,000
2015 912,000,000
2016 1,072,000,000
2017 1,860,000,000
2018 3,121,000,000
2019 -763,000,000
2020 -7,641,000,000

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts