India’s wholesale price inflation rate at (-) 0.13% in June
By Unnikrishnan | 14 Jul 2025
.webp "The annual rate of inflation based on the all-Indi...")
The annual rate of inflation based on the all-India Wholesale Price Index (WPI) declined to a low of (-) 0.13 per cent in June 2025, mainly due to lower prices of food items, mineral oils, basic metals, crude petroleum, natural gas etc, provisional figures released on Monday showed.
Wholesale price inflation in the country has been showing a declining trend over the past 2-3 months.
Inflation rate for the `primary articles’ group, which has a weight of 22.62 per cent in the WPI, increased by 0.81 per cent in June 2025, due to higher prices of minerals, non-food products and food items. However, the prices of crude petroleum and natural gas declined by 0.44 per cent year-on-year during the month.
Inflation rate for the `fuel and power’ group (weight of 13.15 per cent in WPI) declined by 2.52 per cent due to lower prices of electricity, mineral oils and coal in June 2025, compared to May 2025.
Inflation rate for the `manufactured products’ group, which has a weight of 64.23 per cent in the WPI), declined by 0.07 per cent year-on-year in June 2025. Eleven out of the 22 groups of manufactured products showed increase in prices, while six groups showed decrease in prices and five groups showed no change in prices.
Some of the important groups that showed month-over-month increase in prices were manufactured products, including machinery and equipment, transport equipment, pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemical and botanical products, computers, electronic and optical products etc while products like basic metals, food products, fabricated metal products (except machinery and equipment), tobacco products, rubber and plastics products etc showed a decline in prices during June 2025.
The rate of inflation, based on WPI Food Index (weight of 24.38 per cent in WPI), decreased to (-) 0.26 per cent in June 2025 from 1.72 per cent in May. The WPI food price index comprises 'food articles' from the `primary articles’ group and 'food product' from the `manufactured products’ group.
The final inflation rate based on the revised Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for all commodities in April 2025 (Base Year: 2011-12=100) stood at 0.85 per cent.
.webp)
