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Date : May 29, 2025
Inflation, Money and Credit
(Per cent)
Inflation
Consumer Price Index (CPI) [All India] Rural Urban Combined
2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
General Index (All Groups) 6.8 5.6 5.0 6.4 5.1 4.1 6.7 5.4 4.6
Food and Beverages 6.8 6.9 6.9 6.5 7.3 6.5 6.7 7.0 6.7
Housing … … … 4.3 3.9 2.8 4.3 3.9 2.8
Fuel and Light 9.6 1.8 -0.9 11.6 0.3 -5.1 10.3 1.2 -2.5
Miscellaneous 5.9 4.6 4.2 6.6 4.4 4.0 6.3 4.5 4.1
Excluding Food and Fuel 6.3 4.5 3.7 5.9 4.2 3.4 6.1 4.3 3.5
Other Price Indices 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25
1. Wholesale Price Index (2011-12=100)#                  
All Commodities 1.7 2.9 4.3 1.7 1.3 13.0 9.4 -0.7 2.3
Primary Articles 3.4 1.4 2.7 6.8 1.7 10.2 10.0 3.5 5.1
of which : Food Articles 4.0 2.1 0.3 8.4 3.2 4.1 7.3 6.6 7.3
Fuel and Power -0.3 8.2 11.5 -1.8 -8.0 32.5 28.1 -4.7 -1.3
Manufactured Products 1.3 2.7 3.7 0.3 2.8 11.1 5.6 -1.7 1.7
Non-food Manufactured Products -0.1 3.0 4.2 -0.4 2.2 11.0 5.8 -1.4 0.7
2. CPI- Industrial Workers (IW) [2001=100] 4.1 3.1 5.4 7.5 5.0 5.1 6.1 5.2 3.4
of which : CPI- IW Food 4.4 1.5 0.6 7.4 5.8 4.7 6.1 7.3 6.0
3. CPI- Agricultural Labourers (1986-87=100) 4.2 2.2 2.1 8.0 5.5 4.0 6.8 7.1 5.7
4. CPI- Rural Labourers (1986-87=100) 4.2 2.3 2.2 7.7 5.5 4.2 7.0 6.9 5.7
Money and Credit
  2016-17^ 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25^^
Reserve Money (RM) -12.9 27.3 14.5 9.4 18.8 13.0 7.8 5.6 3.3
Currency in Circulation -19.7 37.0 16.8 14.5 16.6 9.8 7.8 3.9 5.8
Bankers’ Deposits with RBI 8.4 3.9 6.4 -9.6 28.5 25.4 6.1 10.2 -6.5
Currency-GDP Ratio$ 8.7 10.7 11.3 12.2 14.4 13.3 12.6 11.7 11.2
Narrow Money (M1) -3.9 21.8 13.6 11.2 16.2 10.7 6.9 7.3 7.9
Broad Money (M3) 6.9 9.2 10.5 8.9 12.2 8.8 9.0 11.1 9.6
Currency-Deposit Ratio 11.0 14.4 15.4 16.3 17.2 17.4 17.3 16.0 15.4
Money Multiplier* 6.7 5.8 5.6 5.5 5.2 5.0 5.1 5.4 5.7
GDP-M3 Ratio$* 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2
Scheduled Commercial Banks                  
Aggregate Deposits 11.3 6.2 10.0 7.9 11.4 8.9 9.6 12.9 10.6
Bank Credit 4.5 10.0 13.3 6.1 5.6 9.6 15.0 16.3 12.1
Non-food Credit 5.2 10.2 13.4 6.1 5.5 9.7 15.4 16.3 12.0
Credit-Deposit Ratio 72.9 75.5 77.7 76.4 72.4 72.2 75.8 78.1 79.1
Credit-GDP Ratio$ 50.9 50.5 51.7 51.6 55.1 50.4 50.9 52.8 53.8
# : Data for 2024-25 are provisional.
… : CPI Rural for Housing is not compiled.
^ : March 31, 2017, over April 1, 2016, barring RM and its components.
^^ : Data for Reserve Money pertain to March 28, 2025, while that of Money Supply relate to March 21, 2025.
$ : GDP data from 2011-12 onwards are based on new series i.e., base: 2011-12. GDP refers to GDP at Current Market Prices.
* : Not expressed in per cent.
Note: 1. Data refers to y-o-y change in per cent unless specified otherwise.
2. Base for CPI (All India) is 2012=100 whereas base for CPI-IW is 2001=100 till August 2020 and 2016=100 from September 2020 onwards.
Source: RBI, NSO, Labour Bureau and Ministry of Commerce and Industry.


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