Islamabad June 16 2023: Pakistan Household inflation measured by the SPI for the current week ended on 15th Jun, 2023 increased by 0.20 percent.
Major increase is observed in the prices of food items, Sugar (4.24 percent), Gur (2.42 percent), Wheat Flour (1.79 percent), Curd (1.59 percent), Pulse Mash (1.25 percent), Garlic (1.15 percent), Milk Fresh (1.08 percent) and non-food item, Washing Soap (1.61 percent).
On the other hand decrease is observed in the prices Onions (7.56 percent), Bananas (5.00 percent), Eggs (4.86 percent), LPG (4.14 percent), Pulse Moong (2.04 percent), Pulse Gram (1.46 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 kg (1.36 percent), Chicken (1.12 percent), Mustard Oil (0.75 percent), Cooking Oil 5 Litre (0.44 percent), Pulse Masoor (0.42 percent) and Vegetable Ghee 2.5 kg (0.36 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 19 (37.25 percent) items increased, 12 (23.53 percent) items decreased and 20 (39.22 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts increase of 34.96 percent, Cigarettes (124.38 percent), Tea Lipton (114.93 percent), Wheat Flour (110.08 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (79.11 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (78.11 percent), Potatoes (67.44 percent), Bananas (67.33 percent), Gents Sponge Chappal (58.05 percent), Pulse Moong (53.41 percent), Bread (52.36 percent), Pulse Mash (52.32 percent) and Salt Powdered (49.65 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (29.71 percent), Onions (17.94 percent), Diesel (3.89 percent) and Pulse Masoor (0.91 percent).
