Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for January 2025: Inflation Rate and Key Highlights
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has released the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for January 2025, reporting an annual inflation rate of 2.31% (provisional) compared to January 2024. The increase in inflation is primarily due to the rising prices in the categories of manufactured food products, food articles, non-food articles, and textiles. The month-over-month (MoM) WPI change for January 2025 stood at (-) 0.45% compared to December 2024, indicating a marginal decline in wholesale prices.
The WPI is broadly categorized into three major groups: Primary Articles, Fuel & Power, and Manufactured Products. The trends in these categories for January 2025 are as follows:
Sectors with price increases:
Sectors with price declines:
The WPI Food Index, which includes food articles from Primary Articles and food products from Manufactured Products, declined from 195.9 (December 2024) to 191.4 (January 2025).
The inflation rate for WPI Food Index declined from 8.89% (December 2024) to 7.47% (January 2025), indicating a slowdown in food inflation.
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