Reserve Bank of Australia API
The RBA sets the cash rate and publishes the statistical tables for monetary policy: cash-rate target, exchange rates (F11), household debt, lending rates, and the historical D and F series.
Real-rate calculations, mortgage models, FX pipelines, AUD treasury analytics, and any agent that needs the current and historical cash rate.
Why use ausdata.io. RBA publishes CSV and XLS downloads with column conventions that change between tables. We parse and normalise them so you get one JSON envelope, regardless of source table.
Datasets we serve from RBA
- Cash Rate Target
/v1/real-rate-regimeGet the current RBA cash rate target and the inflation-adjusted real cash rate in one JSON call. Pulls the nominal cash rate from the RBA F1 statistical table and subtracts the latest trimmed-mean CPI from the ABS. No XLS parsing, no series-ID lookups. Updated after every RBA board meeting.
- Exchange Rates
/v1/data/rba/exchange-ratesDaily Australian Dollar exchange rates as JSON. Bilateral rates against USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CNY and the Trade-Weighted Index. Sourced from the RBA F11 statistical table and refreshed each Sydney close. Skip the CSV download and pull AUD FX into apps, dashboards, or backtests directly.
- Household Debt to Income
/v1/data/rba/household-debtAustralian household debt-to-income and debt-to-assets ratios as JSON. Sourced from the RBA E2 selected household ratios table and refreshed quarterly. Track leverage trends without opening the workbook. One bearer token, one call, consistent envelope.
Sample queries
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/real-rate-regime"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/rba/exchange-rates?pair=USD&limit=30"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/rba/household-debt"Composers that use RBA
- Economic Dashboard
Five-source macro snapshot in one call. Cash rate, CPI, unemployment, wages, household spending.
- Real-Rate Regime
RBA cash rate minus CPI year-on-year, with regime tagging.
- Real Savings Rate
Average term-deposit rate minus CPI, with an after-tax overlay.
- Real Mortgage Rate
RBA F6 standard variable mortgage rate minus CPI year-on-year.
- Credit Impulse
Change in private-sector credit growth divided by nominal GDP.
- Raw Data Passthrough
Direct access to any underlying dataset, normalised to JSON.
- Upcoming Releases
The next 30 days of official Australian-government statistical releases.
- Release Pulse
What just dropped from ABS, RBA, APRA over the last 7 days.
Licence
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