Freight and the transport industry : Transport and Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

FT005 Freight tonne-km growth compared to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth (road, rail, maritime, aviation)

Road freight tonne km growth relative to GDP growth (base year 1992)

	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Freight tonne km growth relative to GDP	25%	27%	28%	25%	25%	26%	28%	20%

Full range of data available in CSV download Download: CSV icon

Download:


Indicator name	Freight tonne-km growth compared to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth (road, rail, maritime, aviation)
Key reference number	FT005
Definition of indicator	Freight tonne-km growth compared to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth (road, rail, maritime, aviation)
What does it mean ?	The data for 2001-2008 shows that road freight tonne km since 1992 is about 25% more than GDP growth since 1992. Seeing the relative growth has been static for that period, it means that tonne km has been growing about 25% more than GDP during that period
Export date	9/04/2010

Core indicator information
Nature of data	Quantitative
Data source: GDP	PG002 series 1, Stats NZ series 40085
Data source: Tonne km	Road: estimated from Road User Charges licences 4+tonnes (From MoT Fleet Statistics Report Table 11.1)
Frequency	to be determined
Disaggregation	National by mode
Timeliness	March/April (after the GDP data is available)
Quality of the data	While the estimation depends on loading assumptions, the trend is realistic
Availability of forecast data	No