June inflation drops to 6-yr low of 2.1%

RETAIL inflation fell to over six-year low of 2.1% in June 2025 against 2.82% in May.

- ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU @New Delhi

This is the lowest monthly retail inflation, measured by the consumer Price Index (CPI), since January 2019. A year ago in June, the retail inflation was 5.08%.

The main driver of the muted inflation in June was a decline in food inflation, which contracted by 1.06% as against a growth of 0.99% in May. This was driven by falling prices of vegetables, pulses, cereals, meat, fish, sugar, dairy, and spices resulting in lowest food inflation reading since January 2019. Vegetable prices fell by 19% YoY, while pulses recorded a 12% YoY fall in prices. Prices of spices fell by 3% and meat & fish fell by 1.6%.