{
  "dataset": "The Reference Figures — Egidio (Australia)",
  "version": "1.0",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": "Egidio",
  "publisherUrl": "https://egidio.app/",
  "market": "Australia",
  "datePublished": "2026-07-31",
  "dateModified": "2026-07-31",
  "rows": [
    {
      "category": "Parcel volumes",
      "figure": "2.2 billion items processed by Australia Post in FY25, including a record 102.8 million parcels over the Christmas period",
      "value": 2200000000,
      "unit": "items",
      "source": "Australia Post Annual Report 2025",
      "sourceUrl": "https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/2025-australia-post-annual-report.pdf",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-07-31",
      "periodCovered": "FY2025 (2024-07 to 2025-06)"
    },
    {
      "category": "Banking inclusion",
      "figure": "97% of Australian adults hold a deposit account; around 3% (600,000+ people) are unbanked or severely underbanked, up from 2.2% in 2020",
      "value": 97,
      "unit": "percent",
      "source": "RBA Financial Stability Review / ABS & FinTech Australia",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2025/oct/resilience-of-australian-households-and-businesses.html",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-07-31",
      "periodCovered": "2025"
    },
    {
      "category": "Payment fraud",
      "figure": "$2.18 billion in total reported scam losses in 2025, across 274,577 reports involving a financial loss",
      "value": 2180000000,
      "unit": "AUD",
      "source": "National Anti-Scam Centre, Targeting Scams Report 2025",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.nasc.gov.au/system/files/targeting-scams-report-2025.pdf",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-07-31",
      "periodCovered": "2025 calendar year"
    },
    {
      "category": "Data breaches",
      "figure": "1,205 data breach notifications in 2025, an 8% increase over 2024 (1,112) and the highest number since mandatory reporting began in 2018",
      "value": 1205,
      "unit": "notifications",
      "source": "OAIC, Notifiable Data Breaches statistics",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-centre/data-breach-notifications-increase-to-all-time-high-in-2025,-new-ndb-stats-show",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-07-31",
      "periodCovered": "2025 calendar year"
    },
    {
      "category": "Employment",
      "figure": "686,800 unemployed people in June 2026 (4.4% seasonally adjusted unemployment rate)",
      "value": 686800,
      "unit": "people",
      "source": "Australian Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/unemployment-rate-remains-44-june",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-07-31",
      "periodCovered": "2026-06"
    }
  ],
  "changelog": [
    {"version": "1.0", "date": "2026-07-31", "note": "Initial release of the Australian reference figures dataset."}
  ]
}