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Air and space transport

Air and space transport.

$6.4bof output in the year to March 2020; 0.66% of the economy's value added
44.7%of its output is exported (year to March 2020)
+0.8%growth in transport, postal and warehousing output, year to June 2026
93kfilled jobs in transport, postal and warehousing, September 2026 quarter

Who it buys from

Share of everything it buys, year to March 2020. Click an industry to see its profile.

Who buys from it

Share of its output. Blue: households, government, investment and exports; grey: other industries.

Where each $100 goes

Including what its suppliers, and their suppliers, pay out (cumulated primary input coefficients), year to March 2020.

What it sells overseas

$2.9 billion of its output, 44.7%, was sold to overseas buyers in the year to March 2020, mostly to visitors.

Services exports, from the input-output tables. Stats NZ doesn't publish current services exports by industry; see trade for services exports by type.

Its prices

Prices it charges (output prices)Prices it pays (input prices)

Annual % change, Stats NZ producers price index for rail, water, air and other transport.

Its emissions

Kilotonnes of CO₂ equivalent a year (Stats NZ environmental accounts).

Over time

Stats NZ publishes these for broader groups than the input-output tables, so each chart names the group it covers.

Output of transport, postal and warehousing

$ billion a year, inflation-adjusted (chain volume, seasonally adjusted)

Filled jobs in transport, postal and warehousing

Average over each year

Average hourly earnings

Transport, postal and warehousingAll industries

About these numbers

Industry here is one of the 109 industries in Stats NZ's input-output tables (working industries II123). Buying and selling, and where each $100 goes, come from those tables for the year to March 2020, the latest published.

Exports are this year's goods exports, shared out to industries: each HS code is matched to input-output products (through the UN's product classification), then split between the industries that make each product, in proportion to how much they make. Services exports are shown from the input-output tables.

Output, jobs and pay are for the broader group shown on each chart. Prices use the most detailed producers price index that covers the industry. Emissions are Stats NZ's annual figures for the industry's working industries; per $100 of output uses the 2020 emissions and the input-output tables' output.

Sources: Stats NZ input-output tables, overseas merchandise trade, GDP, business price indexes, greenhouse gas emissions (industry and household), Quarterly Employment Survey; Treasury Estimates of Appropriations via the nz-industrial-policy project; UN Statistics Division correspondence tables.