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Australia: Primary income payments

125.89Bcurrent USD · 2025+85.3% since 2015

Primary income payments refer to employee compensation paid to nonresident workers and investment income (payments on direct investment, portfolio investment, other investments).This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars. Annual figures for Australia from 1989 to 2025.

19892025

Every year

YearValue (current USD)Note
2025125,888,379,094.446
2024129,997,236,960.311
2023129,725,198,390.269
2022143,063,263,471.097
202192,080,571,756.477
202061,541,849,960.445
201989,341,364,797.72
201895,693,862,653.663
201784,970,522,671.368
201669,758,209,004.415
201567,935,213,114.886
201479,874,874,527.786
201385,525,392,630.182
201289,029,764,905.309
2011103,241,083,412.807
201089,682,793,633.69
200969,327,296,649.742
200882,824,910,501.434
200779,121,610,691.003
200658,807,251,444.791
200547,925,908,994.282
200438,696,830,817.11
200327,304,897,250.161
200221,484,354,875.165
200119,530,580,258.484
200021,170,186,957.662
199920,311,338,966.712
199818,505,735,474.34
199721,948,618,405.515
199621,666,410,694.4
199519,683,938,575.866
199416,323,790,423.216
199312,476,352,807.874
199213,804,472,118.996
199115,792,232,315.538
199017,068,021,037.246
198915,268,167,324.969

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Published by World Bank, produced by International Monetary Fund. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Primary income payments. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-primary-income-payments (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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