{"id":110517,"date":"2025-09-01T09:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110517\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:46:14","slug":"australians-remain-trapped-in-the-recession-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110517\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians remain trapped in the &#8216;recession zone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australians have been trapped in a long, drawn-out per capita recession.<\/p>\n<p>As the following chart illustrates, Australia\u2019s per capita GDP has recorded nine declines in the past 11 quarters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Australian-GDP.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"396\" alt=\"Per capita GDP growth\"\/><\/p>\n<p>While the cumulative 1.7% decline in real per capita GDP is rather shallow compared to the early-1980s and 1990s recessions, it is the longest-running slump in modern records, dating back to the 1970s:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GDP-per-capita-comparison.png\" width=\"621\" height=\"468\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Real per capita GDP\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australians have been trapped in a long, drawn-out per capita recession. As the following chart illustrates, Australia\u2019s per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-110517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}