India Wholesale Iinflation February Data: Inflationary pressure in the country seems to be increasing instead of decreasing. This news may make people worried. According to the latest government data, wholesale inflation increased for the fourth consecutive month in February and reached the highest level in almost 11 months.

The main reason behind this increase is considered to be the increase in the prices of food items as well as factory-made products. Due to which inflationary pressure remains. Let us know about this…

What do the figures say?

According to the data, wholesale inflation based on Wholesale Price Index (WPI) increased to 2.13 percent in February. Earlier it was 1.81 percent in January and 0.96 percent in December.

These continuously increasing WPI figures indicate that the economy is under pressure and the effect of inflation is now becoming more clearly visible.

Increased pressure from prices of manufactured goods

Manufactured products play an important role in increasing wholesale inflation. Because they have the highest share in the WPI basket. In the month of February, the inflation rate of this category increased to 2.92 percent. Whereas in January it was 2.86 percent and in December it was 2.03 percent.

Along with this, a rise in the prices of food items was also seen and food inflation reached 1.85 percent in February, which was 1.41 percent in January. This increase in food inflation and wholesale inflation may spoil people’s kitchen budget. Due to things becoming expensive, there is a possibility of expenditure pressure on common people.

Rise in prices of primary products

Primary products, which include agricultural goods and minerals. There is a rise in these also. Inflation rate has increased in this category also. Talking about the figures, in February it increased to 3.27 percent on annual basis.

Whereas in January it was 2.21 percent and in December it was only 0.21 percent. However, despite the increase on annual basis, on month-on-month comparison, there has been a decline of 0.52 percent in the prices of this category.

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WPI Inflation December 2025: Wholesale inflation continued to rise for the second consecutive month and reached 0.83 percent in December 2025. This increase was recorded due to monthly increase in prices of food items, non-food items and manufactured goods. This information was received from government data released on Wednesday.

What do the figures say?

According to PTI language inputs, Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation stood at minus 0.32 percent in November and minus 1.21 percent in October. In contrast, wholesale inflation in December 2024 was 2.57 percent. The Industry Ministry said in the statement, the inflation rate increased in December 2025 mainly due to increase in prices of other manufacturing, minerals, machinery and equipment manufacturing, manufacturing of food products and textiles etc.

According to WPI data, food prices declined by 0.43 percent in December. Whereas in November this rate was 4.16 percent. The inflation rate of vegetables declined by 3.50 percent in December, whereas it was 20.23 percent in November.

In case of manufactured products, inflation stood at 1.82 percent in December as against 1.33 percent in November 2025. Inflation in the non-food items category stood at 2.95 percent in December. Whereas in November it was 2.27 percent. Inflation rate in fuel and power sectors stood at 2.31 percent in December while it was 2.27 percent in November.

Increase in prices of kitchen essentials

Retail inflation rose to a three-month high of 1.33 percent in December last month due to increase in prices of kitchen essentials including vegetables, eggs and pulses. Inflation in November was 0.71 percent. Before this, the previous high level of 1.44 percent was recorded in September.

The government had released figures in this regard this week itself. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) keeps an eye on retail inflation. So far in the current financial year, the Central Bank has reduced the policy rate repo by 1.25 percent, which is now 5.5 percent.

RBI estimate

Last month, RBI had reduced the inflation estimate for the current financial year to two percent from the earlier 2.6 percent. The Reserve Bank of India has increased its estimate of GDP growth for the financial year 2025-26 to 7.3 percent from the earlier 6.8 percent. India had registered a growth of 8.2 percent in the July-September quarter and 7.8 percent in the April-June quarter.

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