Islamabad August 19 2023: The SPI for the current week ended on 17th August, 2023 increased by 0.78 percent, revealed by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Friday.
The Pakistani authorities has raised the prices of Petrol and Diesel by PKR 37.4 per liter and PKR 39.95 per liter in the last two price adjustments, which took place within a span of fifteen days.
Major increase is observed in the prices of food items, Chillies Powder (7.58 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (7.48 percent), Garlic (5.06 percent), Sugar (4.02 percent), Gur (3.23 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (3.06 percent), Chicken (2.83 percent) and Bananas (2.72 percent), non-food items, Diesel (7.29 percent) and Petrol (6.40 percent).
On the other hand decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (13.60 percent), Cooking Oil 5 litre (1.65 percent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 kg (0.85 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 kg (0.43 percent), Firewood (0.42 percent), Mustard Oil (0.23 percent) and Wheat Flour (0.19 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 32 (62.75 percent) items increased, 07 (13.72 percent) items decreased and 12 (23.53 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts increase of 27.57 percent, Wheat Flour (131.29 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Cigarettes (106.89 percent), Tea Lipton (95.19 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (88.76 percent), Chilies Powder (86.05 percent), Rice Irri6/9 (84.16 percent), Sugar (74.71 percent), Gur (63.00 percent), Chicken (58.56 percent), Gents Sponge Chappal (58.05 percent), Potatoes (56.30 percent) and Salt Powdered (49.09 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices Onions (28.85 percent), Electricity for Q1 (21.96 percent), Pulse Masoor (14.85 percent) and Vegetable Ghee 1 kg (1.20 percent).
