Consumer price inflation in Malaysia

Consumer prices in Malaysia changed by 1.4% in 2025.

Measure: Consumer price inflation (World Bank) Unit: Annual % change Data: 1960 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Malaysia, 2025 1.4% Annual % change
Change from 2024 −0.5percentage points 2024: 1.8%
World, 2025 3.0% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 128th of 169 See the full ranking

Consumer price inflation in Malaysia over time

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Annual % change. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Consumer price inflation (World Bank) (annual % change), 2001 to 2025
Period MalaysiaWorld
2025 1.4% 3.0%
2024 1.8% 3.0%
2023 2.5% 5.7%
2022 3.4% 8.0%
2021 2.5% 3.5%
2020 -1.1% 1.9%
2019 0.7% 2.2%
2018 0.9% 2.5%
2017 3.9% 2.3%
2016 2.1% 1.6%
2015 2.1% 1.4%
2014 3.1% 2.4%
2013 2.1% 2.6%
2012 1.7% 3.7%
2011 3.2% 4.8%
2010 1.6% 3.3%
2009 0.6% 2.9%
2008 5.4% 8.9%
2007 2.0% 4.8%
2006 3.6% 4.3%
2005 3.0% 4.1%
2004 1.4% 3.5%
2003 1.1% 3.0%
2002 1.8% 2.9%
2001 1.4% 3.8%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.5 percentage points from 1.8% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 2.1%, the figure has changed by −0.7 percentage points.
  • Among the 169 countries with data for 2025, Malaysia has the 128th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 3.0%.

Source and dates

Original producer
International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2025 for Malaysia
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics