Islamabad April 20 2023: The SPI for the current week ended on 19th April, 2023 increase by 47.23 percent on year on year basis, revealed by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
Major increase is observed in the prices of food items, Potatoes (3.79 percent), Tea Lipton (3.61 percent), Gur (3.40 percent), Bread (2.48 percent), Chicken (2.00 percent), Bananas (1.68 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (1.54 percent) and Rice Irri-6/9 (1.22 percent), non-food items, LPG (4.75 percent), Petrol (3.67 percent) and Match Box (2.51 percent).
On the other hand decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (13.11 percent), Onions (4.62 percent), Garlic (3.59 percent), Sugar (1.52 percent), Wheat Flour (0.93 percent), Mustard Oil (0.56 percent), Cigarettes (0.26 percent) and Pulse Gram (0.22 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 29 (56.86 percent) items increased, 08 (15.69 percent) items decreased and 14 (27.45 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts increase of 47.23 percent, Cigarettes (151.45 percent), Wheat Flour (143.88 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Tea Lipton (104.28 percent), Diesel (102.84 percent), Potatoes (98.74 percent), Bananas (98.42 percent), Eggs (97.80 percent), Petrol (87.81 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (87.30 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (83.52 percent), Pulse Moong (68.94 percent), Bread (59.22 percent) and Pulse Mash (58.35 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (8.65 percent) and Chilies Powdered (6.48 percent).
