India’s WPI inflation rises to 0.52% in August 2025
The month-over-month change in WPI for August stood at 0.52 per cent as compared to July 2025.
India’s WPI inflation rose to 0.52 per cent in August 2025 from -0.58 per cent in July, driven by higher prices of food products, non-food articles, and other manufacturing items, according to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
The WPI climbed to 155.2, with primary articles up 1.60 per cent and manufactured products up 0.21 per cent, while fuel and power dipped 0.69 per cent.
“Positive rate of inflation in August 2025 is primarily due to increase in prices of food products, other manufacturing, non-food articles, other non-metallic mineral products and other transport equipment etc,” the Office of the Economic Adviser, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, said.
The official WPI for all commodities (Base: 2011-12 = 100) for August increased to 155.2 from 154.4 in the previous month.
The index for manufactured products (weight 64.23 per cent) increased by 0.21 per cent from 144.6 for the month of July to 144.9 in August. The index for ‘Manufacture of Textiles’ sub-group increased to 137.8 in August from 136.6 in July, while the index for ‘Manufacture of Wearing Apparel’ dropped to 155.9 in August from 156.0 in July.
The index for primary articles (weight 22.62 per cent) increased by 1.60 per cent from 188.0 in July to 191.0 in August, while that for fuel and power (weight 13.15 per cent) decreased by 0.69 per cent from 144.6 in July to 143.6 in August.
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