Islamabad September 23 2022: Pakistan household inflation measured by the SPI for the current week ended on 22nd September, 2022 recorded a decrease of 8.11%.
Decrease is observed in the prices of food items, Tomatoes (8.15%), Bananas (1.90%), Garlic (1.31%), Pulse Masoor (0.99%), Cooking Oil 5 litre (0.78%), Onions (0.46%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5Kg (0.34%) and Vegetable Ghee 1Kg (0.06%),non-food items, Electricity for Q1 (64.23%) and LPG (3.82%).
On the other hand increase observed in the prices of Wheat Flour (22.47%), Tea Lipton (6.42%), Chicken (4.52%), Pulse Gram (2.54%), Bread (2.36%), Cigarettes (1.82%), Rice Basmati Broken (1.51%), Potatoes (1.45%), Pulse Moong (1.31%) and Rice Irri 6/9 (1.07%).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 26 (50.98%) items increased, 10 (19.61%) items decreased and 15 (29.41%) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts an increase of 29.28%, Tomatoes (117.55%), Diesel (105.12%), Petrol (91.87%), Pulse Masoor (75.38%), Pulse Gram (73.55%), Mustard Oil (65.64%), Cooking Oil 5 litre (63.63%), Washing Soap (61.50%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (59.42%), Pulse Mash (56.93%), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (56.09%), Onions (50.83%) and LPG (49.89%), while decrease observed in the prices of Electricity for Q1 (45.61%), Chillies Powder (43.05%), Sugar (19.20%) and Gur (3.37%).
