A sharper decline in household food prices helped ease Malaysia's headline inflation in June, making it the lowest in more than four years, according to official data released on Tuesday.
The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the country's leading indicator of inflation, rose 1.1% year-on-year (yoy) in June 2025.
This was slightly lower than the 1.2% in May, as well as the median forecast of economists in a Bloomberg survey who also expected 1.2%.
The decline in inflation was mainly driven by a 0.4% decline in household food prices, compared to no change in May. Among the main contributors to the decline were vegetables which fell 7.2%, eggs which fell 4.4% and chicken which fell 0.6%.
Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and fuel items, remained unchanged at 1.8% from a month ago.
Across the states, Kelantan recorded the lowest inflation at 0.2%, while Negeri Sembilan and Selangor recorded the highest increase at 1.6%.
On a quarterly basis, inflation in the second quarter of 2025 declined to 1.3% compared to 1.5% in the first quarter.
