Islamabad August 25 2023: Pakistan Household Inflation measure by the SPI for the current week ended on 24th August, 2023 increased by 0.05 percent to 25.34 percent a low of 63 weeks, revealed by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
The year on year trend depicts increase of 25.34 percent, Wheat Flour (129.38 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Cigarettes (102.31 percent), Tea Lipton (93.94 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (89.56 percent), Chilies Powder (86.05 percent), Sugar (81.21 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (80.54 percent), Gur (63.59 percent), Gents Sponge Chappal (58.05 percent), Salt Powdered (49.09 percent), Chicken (48.58 percent) and Bread (46.37 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (39.96 percent), Onions (37.70 percent), Electricity for Q1 (21.96 percent), Pulse Masoor (10.68 percent) and Vegetable Ghee 1 kg (0.40 percent).
During the week, major increase is observed in the prices of food items, Onions (23.56 percent), Pulse Masoor (3.66 percent), Sugar (3.43 percent), Garlic (2.17 percent), Eggs (2.13 percent), Cooked Daal (2.04 percent) and Pulse Mash (1.52 percent), non-food items, Energy saver (1.89 percent) and Long Cloth (1.51 percent).
On the other hand major decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (22.16 percent), Chicken (5.44 percent), Rice Irri6/9 (1.70 percent), Potatoes (1.43 percent), Bananas (1.22 percent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 kg (0.97 percent), Mustard Oil (0.87 percent), Cooking Oil 5 litre (0.67 percent), Pulse Gram (0.49 percent), LPG (0.43 percent) and Wheat Flour (0.25 percent). iii. During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 22 (43.14 percent) items increased, 12 (25.53 percent) items decreased and 17 (33.33 percent) items remained stable.
