New Delhi, June 12 -- Consumer Price Index (CPI) or year-on-year inflation for the month of May 2025 declined by 34 basis points to 2.82 per cent, the lowest year-on-year inflation after February 2019.

A sharp decline of 79 basis points is observed in food inflation in May compared to April 2025. The food inflation in May 2025 is the lowest after October 2021.

The significant decline in inflation is mainly because of decline in prices of Pulses & products, Vegetables, Fruits, Cereals & products, Households goods & services, Sugar & confectionary and Egg and the favourable base effect.

Headline inflation in rural sector is observed at 2.59 per cent in May, 2025 as compared to 2.92 per cent in April 2025. Whereas the headline Urban infla...