Malaysia's headline inflation eased to 1.9% year-on-year in June 2026, from 2.0% in the preceding month, Department of Statistics Malaysia data showed.
Consumer prices were unchanged month-on-month after rising 0.1% in the previous month.
Insurance and financial services recorded the fastest annual increase among the 13 main groups, at 5.7%. This was followed by Personal care, social protection and miscellaneous goods and services (3.4%) and Alcoholic beverages and tobacco (2.8%). Food and beverages, a core household spending group, rose 1.4% from a year earlier.
The largest month-on-month movements were Personal care, social protection and miscellaneous goods and services (-0.9%), Insurance and financial services (0.8%) and Transport (-0.8%), with negative figures indicating lower prices than in the preceding month. These category movements came alongside the unchanged national headline reading for June.
Headline inflation has moved within a narrow range in recent releases: January 2026 at 1.6%, February 2026 at 1.4%, March 2026 at 1.7%, April 2026 at 1.9%, May 2026 at 2.0% and June 2026 at 1.9%. June's reading matched April's rate but was below May's 2.0%.
The CPI tracks the cost of a representative basket of goods and services. Source: Department of Statistics Malaysia / OpenDOSM, Headline Consumer Price Inflation dataset for June 2026. https://data.gov.my/data-catalogue/cpi_headline_inflation
