PUTRAJAYA, Nov 10 — Health Inflation increased 3.0 per cent in 2025 as compared to 1.3 per cent in 2024, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
It said the increase was driven by the Health Services category, which recorded a significant rise of 4.4 per cent as compared to 0.9 per cent in 2024, which contributed by the Insurance connected with health expenditure class that increased by 9.1 per cent in 2025 (2024: 0.0%).
The Medicine category represents the largest weight, accounting for 38.9 per cent in Health Price Index (HPI), recorded an increase of 2.8 per cent in 2025, compared with 2.2 per cent in the previous year.
“The increase was driven by the Medicines expenditure class, which includes the Medicines, vaccines & other pharmaceutical preparations and Herbal medicines & homeopathic products expenditure subclasses.
