Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is Australia's national statistical agency, publishing official statistics on the economy, population, labour, health, industry and the Census. For developers it publishes the Data API, an SDMX 2.1-compliant REST service (data.api.abs.gov.au) returning ABS economic, social and Census data as XML, JSON or CSV; the Indicator API for headline economic indicators, which requires an API key requested from the ABS; a Time Series Directory API; and the ABS Data Explorer (dataexplorer.abs.gov.au) for browsing the same datasets without code.

Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Get Data API, Get Metadata API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Government, Statistics, Open Data, and SDMX.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Australian Bureau of Statistics’ developer surface includes changelog, authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, API reference, support, signup flow, and 27 more developer resources.

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2 published contracts 3 Agent Skills

Company Government Statistics Open Data SDMX Census Economic Indicators Australia

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Composite quality — 52.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.6 / 17

Access Clarity 9.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 3.6 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 42/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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Operational Transparency scores 26.3 — up to +9.6 composite points
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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

ABS Time Series Directory API

Servlet-based API (TSSearchServlet) for searching the ABS time series directory by catalogue number, table title, series ID and other parameters, returning XML listings of ABS t...

Australian Bureau of Statistics Get Data API

The Get Data API from Australian Bureau of Statistics — 2 operation(s) for get data.

Australian Bureau of Statistics Get Metadata API

The Get Metadata API from Australian Bureau of Statistics — 4 operation(s) for get metadata.

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

fetch-structure-version

AGENT SKILL

get-economic-indicator

AGENT SKILL

query-sdmx-data

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Australian Bureau Of Statistics Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Australian Bureau Of Statistics Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Australian Bureau Of Statistics Context

3 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Australian Bureau of Statistics API Rules

11 rules · 9 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Australian Bureau Of Statistics Data Api Overlay

5 actions · update · australian-bureau-of-statistics-data-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Australian Bureau Of Statistics Indicator Api Overlay

3 actions · documentation · australian-bureau-of-statistics-indicator-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

File

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Australian Bureau Of Statistics Authentication

apiKey/none · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Australian Bureau Of Statistics Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Australian Bureau Of Statistics Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Australian Bureau Of Statistics Agentic Access

6 operations

6 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

Conventions

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Scroll for all 7

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Authentication

Authentication

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Security

Security

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

TermsOfService

Legal

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: australian-bureau-of-statistics
name: Australian Bureau of Statistics
description: The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is Australia's national statistical agency, publishing official statistics
  on the economy, population, labour, health, industry and the Census. For developers it publishes the Data API, an SDMX 2.1-compliant
  REST service (data.api.abs.gov.au) returning ABS economic, social and Census data as XML, JSON or CSV; the Indicator API
  for headline economic indicators, which requires an API key requested from the ABS; a Time Series Directory API; and the
  ABS Data Explorer (dataexplorer.abs.gov.au) for browsing the same datasets without code.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/australian-bureau-of-statistics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://www.abs.gov.au/themes/custom/abs_theme/images/abs-meta-image.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:australia-apidays-2026
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-22 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-22'
modified: '2026-10-22'
tags:
- Company
- Government
- Statistics
- Open Data
- SDMX
- Census
- Economic Indicators
- Australia
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/australian-bureau-of-statistics-agentic-access.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/australian-bureau-of-statistics-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/australian-bureau-of-statistics-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/australian-bureau-of-statistics-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/australian-bureau-of-statistics-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/australian-bureau-of-statistics-changelog.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/australian-bureau-of-statistics-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/australian-bureau-of-statistics-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/australian-bureau-of-statistics-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/australian-bureau-of-statistics-conformance.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/australian-bureau-of-statistics-data-api-overlay.yaml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/australian-bureau-of-statistics-www-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/australian-bureau-of-statistics-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/australian-bureau-of-statistics-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/australian-bureau-of-statistics-vendors.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/australian-bureau-of-statistics-authentication.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/australian-bureau-of-statistics-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/australian-bureau-of-statistics-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.abs.gov.au/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/data-api-user-guide
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/data-api-user-guide/using-api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.gov.au/assets/APIs/abs/DataAPI.openapi.html
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/data-api-user-guide/updates
- type: Support
  url: https://www.abs.gov.au/about/contact-us
- type: SignUp
  name: Indicator API key request form
  url: https://www.abs.gov.au/system/files/documents/e229d9b19dd0be5a892fc9802c24fd74/ABS%20Indicator%20API%20Key%20Request%20Form.docx
- type: TermsOfService
  name: Indicator API terms of use
  url: https://www.abs.gov.au/about/data-services/application-programming-interfaces-apis/indicator-api/terms-use
- type: Legal
  name: Website privacy, copyright and disclaimer
  url: https://www.abs.gov.au/website-privacy-copyright-and-disclaimer
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.abs.gov.au/about/legislation-and-policy/privacy
- type: Security
  url: https://www.abs.gov.au/about/legislation-and-policy/security-vulnerability-disclosure
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/absstats
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@AustralianBureauOfStatistics
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/ABSStats
apis:
- name: ABS Time Series Directory API
  description: Servlet-based API (TSSearchServlet) for searching the ABS time series directory by catalogue number, table
    title, series ID and other parameters, returning XML listings of ABS time series spreadsheets. No machine-readable contract
    is published.
  humanURL: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/time-series-directory-api
  baseURL: https://abs.gov.au/servlet/TSSearchServlet
  tags:
  - Time Series
  - Statistics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/time-series-directory-api
  aid: australian-bureau-of-statistics:abs-time-series-directory-api
- aid: australian-bureau-of-statistics:australian-bureau-of-statistics-get-data-api
  name: Australian Bureau of Statistics Get Data API
  description: The Get Data API from Australian Bureau of Statistics — 2 operation(s) for get data.
  humanURL: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/data-api-user-guide
  baseURL: https://data.api.abs.gov.au/rest
  tags:
  - Get Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/australian-bureau-of-statistics-get-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/data-api-user-guide
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.gov.au/assets/APIs/abs/DataAPI.openapi.html
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.gov.au/assets/APIs/abs/indicator.openapi.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.abs.gov.au/about/data-services/application-programming-interfaces-apis/indicator-api/terms-use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/australian-bureau-of-statistics-file-schema.json
- aid: australian-bureau-of-statistics:australian-bureau-of-statistics-get-metadata-api
  name: Australian Bureau of Statistics Get Metadata API
  description: The Get Metadata API from Australian Bureau of Statistics — 4 operation(s) for get metadata.
  humanURL: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/data-api-user-guide
  baseURL: https://data.api.abs.gov.au/rest
  tags:
  - Get Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/australian-bureau-of-statistics-get-metadata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/data-api-user-guide
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.gov.au/assets/APIs/abs/DataAPI.openapi.html
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.gov.au/assets/APIs/abs/indicator.openapi.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.abs.gov.au/about/data-services/application-programming-interfaces-apis/indicator-api/terms-use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/australian-bureau-of-statistics-file-schema.json
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: abs.gov.au redirects to www.abs.gov.au (same domain); homepage title "Australian Bureau of Statistics". API hub,
    Data API user guide and Indicator API pages read directly. All pointers fetched with GET 2026-10-22.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.abs.gov.au/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/indicator-api
    status: 200
  - url: https://data.api.abs.gov.au/
    status: 403
  - url: https://github.com/AustralianBureauOfStatistics
    status: 404
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-22'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 37
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

Australian Bureau of Statistics API — frequently asked questions

Does Australian Bureau of Statistics have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Australian Bureau of Statistics, including ABS Time Series Directory API, Australian Bureau of Statistics Get Data API and Australian Bureau of Statistics Get Metadata API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Australian Bureau of Statistics API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Australian Bureau of Statistics, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Australian Bureau of Statistics API?

Australian Bureau of Statistics documents its authentication (apiKey/none · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Australian Bureau Of Statistics Authentication.

How much does the Australian Bureau of Statistics API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Australian Bureau of Statistics, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Is the Australian Bureau of Statistics API ready for AI agents?

Australian Bureau of Statistics has a Kin Score of 52.3 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 41.7 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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