Malaysia's inflation rate in October was 1.9 percent, a slight increase of 0.1 percent from September, official data showed Wednesday.

For the first 10 months of the year, the consumer price index rose 1.9 percent from a year earlier driven by food, transport and housing, the Statistics Department said.

Malaysia's central bank has forecast inflation would remain between 2.0 to 2.5 percent for the year, and has kept its key interest rate unchanged at 3.50 percent amid expectations of sustained economic growth and low inflation.

Inflation reached 3.6 percent last year due to high global oil prices.