The yield on Australia 10Y Bond Yield rose to 4.16% on June 30, 2025, marking a 0.01 percentage point increase from the previous session. Over the past month, the yield has fallen by 0.11 points and is 0.22 points lower than a year ago, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. Australia 10-Year Government Bond Yield - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on June of 2025.

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As of June 26, 2024, all Australian government debt securities had positive yields. Debt with a residual maturity of four years debt recorded the lowest yield at 4.12 percent, while debt with a residual of 20 years recorded the highest yield at 4.74 percent. It is usually the case that bonds with a longer maturity have a higher yield so as to compensate investors for the higher level of uncertainty about future market conditions.

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Investors have received lower and lower returns on 10-year bonds issued by the Australian government between 2010 and 2020. Peaking at **** percent in March 2010, the yield on 10-year bond yields fell to a low of **** percent in October 2020. Since then, yields have increased again, reaching **** percent as of January 2025.

Key information about Australia Short Term Government Bond Yield

• Australia Short Term Government Bond Yield: Daily: Australia: 2 Years was reported at 3.76 % pa in Mar 2025, compared with 3.74 % pa in the previous day.
• Australia Short Term Government Bond Yield data is updated daily, available from May 2013 to Mar 2025.
• The data reached an all-time high of 4.47 % pa in Oct 2023 and a record low of -0.00 % pa in Jun 2021.
• Short Term Government Bond Yield is reported by CEIC Data.

Australia 30 Year Bond Yield was 5.01 percent on Wednesday May 28, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Australia 30Y.

The yield on Australia 20 Year Bond Yield rose to 4.73% on June 27, 2025, marking a 0.01 percentage point increase from the previous session. Over the past month, the yield has fallen by 0.18 points, though it remains 0.02 points higher than a year ago, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Australia 20Y.

The average yearly yield of Australian 10-year government bonds has shown a significant downward trend from 1990 to 2020. Starting above 12 percent in 1990, yields steadily declined, with slight fluctuations, reaching a low of 0.92 percent in 2020. After 2020, yields began to rise again, reflecting recent increases in interest rates and inflation expectations.

Australian government bond yields mostly decreased between April 2024 and April 2025. For instance, the 1-year bond yield dropped from 4.12 percent to 3.43 percent, while the 15-year yield fell from 4.48 percent to 4.59 percent. The decline in yields was consistent across maturities up to seven years.

The yield on Australia 2 Year Bond Yield eased to 3.21% on June 30, 2025, marking a 0.04 percentage point decrease from the previous session. Over the past month, the yield has fallen by 0.08 points and is 0.99 points lower than a year ago, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. Australia 2 Year Note Yield - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on June of 2025.

Government Bond Yield: Australian Government: 3 Years data was reported at 3.370 % pa in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3.762 % pa for Mar 2025. Government Bond Yield: Australian Government: 3 Years data is updated monthly, averaging 4.798 % pa from Jun 1992 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 395 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10.280 % pa in Jan 1995 and a record low of 0.103 % pa in Mar 2021. Government Bond Yield: Australian Government: 3 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Reserve Bank of Australia. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.M007: Government Bond Yield.

The yield on two-year bonds issued by the Australian Government has declined sharply between 2010 and 2021. From a peak of 5.11 percent in December 2010, two-year bond yields fell to a low of 0.02 percent in August 2021. However, since then, the yields have increased, reaching 4.11 percent in May 2024.

Government Bond Yield: Australian Government: Indexed data was reported at 2.232 % pa in Apr 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 2.214 % pa for Mar 2025. Government Bond Yield: Australian Government: Indexed data is updated monthly, averaging 2.829 % pa from Jul 1985 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 478 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.830 % pa in Jan 1987 and a record low of -0.809 % pa in Aug 2021. Government Bond Yield: Australian Government: Indexed data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Reserve Bank of Australia. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.M007: Government Bond Yield. This series is an inflation-indexed bond yield with a maturity of 10 years.

The yield on Australia 5 Year Bond Yield eased to 3.47% on June 30, 2025, marking a 0.02 percentage point decrease from the previous session. Over the past month, the yield has fallen by 0.08 points and is 0.66 points lower than a year ago, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. Australia 5 Year Note Yield - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on June of 2025.

Government Bond Yield: Australian Government: 2 Years data was reported at 3.333 % pa in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3.748 % pa for Mar 2025. Government Bond Yield: Australian Government: 2 Years data is updated monthly, averaging 1.958 % pa from Jun 2013 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 143 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4.254 % pa in Nov 2023 and a record low of 0.011 % pa in Sep 2021. Government Bond Yield: Australian Government: 2 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Reserve Bank of Australia. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.M007: Government Bond Yield. Yields of AUD denominated Government Bonds

Australia Government Bond Yield: 3-5 Years data was reported at 1.097 % pa in 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2.098 % pa for 2018. Australia Government Bond Yield: 3-5 Years data is updated yearly, averaging 5.732 % pa from Dec 1981 (Median) to 2019, with 39 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 16.824 % pa in 1982 and a record low of 1.097 % pa in 2019. Australia Government Bond Yield: 3-5 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by International Monetary Fund. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.IMF.IFS: Treasury Bill and Government Securities Rates: Annual.

Prices for Australia 5Y including live quotes, historical charts and news. Australia 5Y was last updated by Trading Economics this June 30 of 2025.

As of December 2024, the countries with the highest 10-year yields are the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia with 4.68, 4.38 and 4.21 percent, respectively. Of the largest economies by GDP, the United States saw the sharpest fall in absolute terms for 10-year government bond yields due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. From a level of 1.51 percent in January 2020, yields on 10-year government bonds fell to 0.65 percent by April 2020, and had further fallen to 0.53 percent by July 2020 before starting to recover towards the end of the year. Conversely, countries that went into 2020 with already low bond yields like Japan, Germany and France actually saw a small increase in March 2020 - although these already low yields mean that these small changes are significant in relative terms.

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