Malaysia’s inflation increased 1.2 per cent in July
2025
Malaysia’s inflation increased 1.2
per cent in July 2025 with the index points stood at 134.7 as against 133.1 in
the same month of the previous year. This was driven by the inflation rate for
the Insurance & Financial Services group, which rose to 5.5 per cent as
compared to 1.5 per cent in the previous month.
The Food & Beverages group which
contributes 29.8 per cent of the total CPI weight increased slower at 1.9 per
cent in July 2025 as compared to 2.1 per cent in preceding month. This was
contributed by the inflation of the Food away from home subgroup, 4.3 per cent
(June 2025: 4.7%) and Food at home, which declined to negative 0.3 per cent
(June 2025: -0.4%).
Besides, the Personal Care, Social
Protection & Miscellaneous Goods & Services group, 3.9 per cent (June
2025: 4.2%) and Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas & Other Fuels, 1.3 per
cent (June 2025: 1.7%) also moderated in July 2025. Meanwhile, the Education
(2.2%); Health (1.2%); Recreation, Sport & Culture (0.8%); Alcoholic
Beverages & Tobacco (0.6%) and Furnishings, Household Equipment & Routine Household Maintenance (0.1%) groups remained unchanged in July 2025.
Additionally, Information & Communication and Clothing & Footwear
remained at negative territory, registering negative 6.4 per cent and negative
0.2 per cent respectively.
Twelve states recorded increases
below the national inflation rate of 1.2 per cent with Kelantan recording the
lowest inflation (0.0%) in July 2025. However, four states recorded increases
above the national inflation level namely Johor (1.8%), Selangor (1.5%), Negeri
Sembilan (1.4%) and Melaka (1.3%).
The monthly headline inflation
increased 0.1 per cent in July 2025 as compared to June 2025. The increase was
attributed by the Insurance & Financial Services (4.6%), Restaurants &
Accommodation Services (0.8%) and Health (0.3%). Meanwhile, the decline of
several groups namely Information & Communication (-0.9%); Housing, Water,
Electricity, Gas & Other Fuels (-0.4%) and Food & Beverages (-0.1%), to
a certain extent offset the inflation from increasing further.
Core inflation increased 1.8 per cent
in July 2025, the same rate as recorded in the previous month. The increase was
driven by Insurance & Financial Services (5.5%); Personal Care, Social
Protection & Miscellaneous Goods & Services (3.9%); Food &
Beverages (3.5%) and Restaurants & Accommodation Services (3.1%).
In comparison to inflation in other selected countries, inflation in Malaysia (1.2%) was lower than inflation in Viet Nam (3.2%), Indonesia (2.4%) and Republic of Korea (2.1%). However, the rate was higher than the Philippines (0.9%), China (0.0%) and Thailand (-0.7%).
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