Mumbai, June 16 -- The annual rate of inflation based on All India Wholesale Price Index (WPI) number is 0.39% (provisional) for the month of May, 2025 (over May, 2024). Positive rate of inflation in May, 2025 is primarily due to increase in prices of manufacture of food products, electricity, other manufacturing, chemicals and chemical products, manufacture of other transport equipment and non-food articles etc. However, the latest reading marks a sustained fall in annual inflation trends as the WPI stood at 0.85% in April, 2025. WPI inflation fell to a 14-month low. Data showed that month over month change in WPI for the month of May, 2025 stood at - 0.06% as compared to April, 2025, after a contraction of 0.39% in previous month.

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