Estimated Inflation For 2025. Entering 2025, models from forecasting companies like trading economics anticipate inflation rates between 2.4% and 2.9% between the end of 2024 and the start of 2026. Malaysia’s headline inflation has largely remained in the 1.8% to 2% band since february while bank negara has maintained the forecast for headline inflation this year and next at 2% to 3.5%.
Bank negara malaysia (bnm) has incorporated the potential rationalisation of ron95 fuel subsidies into its inflation forecast for 2025, projecting a rate of between 2 per cent and 3.5 per cent. The ministry of finance (mof) forecasts the consumer price index (cpi) — malaysia’s main gauge of inflation — to rise 2% to 3.5% in 2025, compared with the 1.5% to 2.5% forecast for 2024.