Islamabad July 21 2023: Pakistan Household Inflation measured by The SPI for the current week ended on 20th July, 2023 decreased by 0.07 percent, revealed on Friday by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
Decrease is observed in the prices of food items, Onions (10.29 percent), Chicken (8.57 percent), Bananas (8.34 percent), Wheat Flour (0.98 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 kg (0.49 percent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 kg (0.39 percent) and Cooking Oil 5 Litre (0.30 percent), non-food items, Petrol (3.40 percent) and Diesel (2.64 percent).
On the other hand major increase is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (36.06 percent), Chillies Powder (20.17 percent), Sugar (4.77 percent), Eggs (4.70 percent), Gur (3.66 percent), Shirting (2.64 percent) and Garlic (2.31 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 30 (58.82 percent) items increased, 09 (17.65 percent) items decreased and 12 (23.53 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts increase of 29.16 percent, Wheat Flour (126.82 percent), Cigarettes (110.75 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Tea Lipton (98.99 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (79.37 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (74.14 percent), Sugar (66.18 percent), Potatoes (60.32 percent), Gents Sponge Chappal (58.05 percent), Tomatoes (57.58 percent), Gur (54.21 percent), Salt Powdered (53.83 percent) and Bread (46.93 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Onions (35.27 percent), Electricity for Q1 (14.58 percent), Pulse Masoor (8.08 percent), LPG (1.06 percent) and Vegetable Ghee 1 kg (0.51 percent).
