- Retail inflation fell to 2.1% in June 2025, the lowest since January 2019
- Inflation was 2.82% in May 2025 and 5.08% in June 2024, per NSO data
- The 72 basis points drop in June 2025 inflation is due to lower food prices
Retail inflation slipped to a more than six-year low of 2.1 per cent in June mainly due to subdued prices of food items, including vegetables, pulses, meat, and milk.
The Consumer Price Index-based inflation was 2.82 per cent in May and 5.08 per cent in June 2024.
Year-on-year inflation rate based on CPI for the month of June, 2025 over June, 2024 is 2.1 per cent, the National Statistics Office (NSO) said in a statement.
"There is a decline of 72 basis points in headline inflation of June 2025 in comparison to May 2025. It is the lowest year-on-year inflation after January 2019," it said.
The previous low of 1.97 per cent was recorded in January 2019.
The NSO said the significant decline in headline inflation and food inflation in June 2025 is mainly attributed to favourable base effect and decline in inflation of vegetables, pulses and products, meat and fish, cereals and products, sugar and confectionery, milk and products and spices.
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