Malaysia Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
1.9%
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Jan 1981 to Aug 2026
Source: DOSM consumer price index, OpenDOSM cpi_headline_inflation · all items, change on a year earlier, as published.
Malaysia Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Malaysia, the inflation rate rose by 0.6pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 1.3% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.1% in Jun 2025 to 4.7% in Aug 2022.
Its average since Jan 1981 is 2.7%, and the latest reading is below that.
Malaysia is 26th of 34 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- DOSM consumer price index, OpenDOSM cpi_headline_inflation
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not stated in the source citation
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The jumps in mid-2008 and mid-2009 are a real event: Malaysia raised fuel prices by about 40% in June 2008, and the effect dropped out of the yearly rate twelve months later.
Data refreshed 2026-10-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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