Malaysia Inflation Rate, Month on Month
How much consumer prices moved compared with the month before, as DOSM publishes it.
0.3%
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Feb 1980 to Aug 2026
Source: DOSM consumer price index, OpenDOSM cpi_headline_inflation · all items, change on the previous month, as published.
Malaysia Inflation Rate, Month on Month in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Malaysia, the inflation rate, month on month rose by 0.2pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 0.1% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −0.1% in Nov 2024 to 0.7% in Oct 2021.
Its average since Feb 1980 is 0.2%, and the latest reading is above that.
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
Data refreshed 2026-10-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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