Source: Statistics New Zealand
Annual balance sheets: 2024 (provisional) – information release
27 November 2025
Annual balance sheets provide estimates of assets, liabilities, and net worth held by New Zealand institutional sectors at a point in time. These sectors include businesses, households, and government.
This release also records the flows between the annual stock balances of non-financial assets, financial assets, and financial liabilities, known as the accumulation accounts.
Key facts
In the year ended March 2024:
- New Zealand’s net worth increased 4.2 percent as assets rose more than liabilities
- household net worth increased 3.8 percent, following a decrease of 1.7 percent in the March 2023 year
- registered bank lending increased 3.0 percent, following an increase of 3.6 percent in the March 2023 year.
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