Islamabad April 15 2023: Pakistan household inflation, measured by the SPI, for the current week ended on 13th April, 2023 declined by 0.60%, according to data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
The decrease is observed in the prices of food items, Tomatoes (22.43%), Onions (15.85%), Wheat Flour (2.75%), Garlic (1.29%), Pulse Gram (0.82%), Pulse Moong (0.35%) and Mustard Oil (0.09%), non-food items, Electricity charges for Q1 (4.95%) and Firewood (0.09%).
On the other hand major increase is observed in the prices of Potatoes (8.59%), LPG (4.47%), Eggs (2.65%), Shirting (2.39%), Chicken (2.19%), Georgette (2.10%), Washing Soap (1.83%), Bananas (1.64%), Pulse Mash (1.45%), Gur (1.25%) and Cooked Beef (1.15%).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 26 (50.98%) items increased, 09 (17.65%) items decreased and 16 (31.37%) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts increase of 44.61%, Cigarettes (152.11%), Wheat Flour (126.09%), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38%), Diesel (102.84%), Eggs (99.37%), Tea Lipton (97.63%), Bananas (90.18%), Potatoes (87.18%), Rice Basmati Broken (84.46%), Rice Irri-6/9 (81.31%), Petrol (81.17%), Pulse Moong (67.43%), Pulse Mash (58.54%) and Bread Plain (55.36%), while decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (41.56%), Chilies Powdered (6.48%) and Electricity charges for Q1 (1.60%).
