Overview

Malaysia’s Producer Price Index (PPI) recoded a 2.8 per cent decline in August 2025

• Malaysia’s Producer Price recorded a 2.8 per cent decline in August 2025, following a 3.8 per cent decrease in the previous month.

• Similar to the previous month, the decline in August 2025 was mainly due to Manufacturing and Mining sectors. The Manufacturing sector recorded a 4.0 per cent decrease, similar to July 2025, affected by Manufacture of coke & refined petroleum products (-14.9%) and Manufacture of computer, electronic & optical products (-7.7%) indices. At the same time, the Mining sector decreased by 3.4 per cent (July 2025: -8.7%), dragged down by the Extraction of crude petroleum (-5.1%) index. Conversely, the Agriculture, forestry & fishing sector increased by 7.3 per cent (July 2025: 1.1%), contributed by the Growing of perennial crops (11.6%) index. For the utility sectors, both Electricity & gas supply and Water supply sectors went up by 4.1 per cent and 3.4 per cent, respectively.

• On a month-on-month basis, the PPI Local Production increased by 0.1 per cent in August 2025, after a 0.3 per cent rise in the previous month. The Agriculture, forestry & fishing sector went up by 3.3 per cent (July 2025: 2.5%), supported by the Growing of perennial crops (5.1%) index. The utility sectors, Electricity & gas supply and Water supply indices also inclined by 0.7 per cent and 2.7 per cent, respectively. On the other hand, the Mining sector decreased by 1.5 per cent after posting no changes in the previous month, affected by Extraction of natural gas (-2.3%) and Extraction of crude petroleum (-1.2%) indices. The Manufacturing sector continued to record a marginal decrease of 0.2 per cent (July 2025: -0.1%), weighed down by Manufacture of coke & refined petroleum products (-0.7%) and Manufacture of computer, electronic & optical products (-0.4%) indices.

• All stages of processing recorded year-on-year decreases in August 2025, continuing the downward trend since March 2025. The Crude materials for further processing index went down by 0.8 per cent (July 2025: -5.8%), affected by the decrease in Non-food materials index (-1.1%). The Intermediate materials, supplies & components index recorded a 3.1 per cent decline (July 2025: -3.7%), due to drop in Processed fuel & lubricants (-8.6%). Similarly, the Finished goods index decreased by 3.4 per cent (July 2025: -2.4%), mainly due to downturn in the Capital equipment (-5.6%).

• On a month-on-month basis, the Crude materials for further processing index recorded an increase of 1.6 per cent. Meanwhile, Intermediate materials, supplies & components and Finished goods indices decreased by 0.2 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively.

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