Islamabad May 19 2023: The SPI for the current week ended on 18th May, 2023 decreased by 0.16 percent, revealed by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Friday.
Decrease is observed in the prices of food items, Onions (9.04 percent), Garlic (1.76 percent), Sugar (1.42 percent), Wheat Flour (1.40 percent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5kg (0.63 percent), Mustard Oil (0.48 percent), Pulse Masoor (0.40 percent), Pulse Gram (0.12 percent) and Vegetable Ghee 1kg (0.11 percent), non-food items, Diesel (10.38 percent), Petrol (4.24 percent), LPG (3.02 percent) and Firewood (0.89 percent).
On the other hand major increase is observed in the prices of Chicken (7.51 percent), Tea Lipton (4.53 percent), Gur (2.79 percent), Eggs (2.29 percent), Energy Saver (2.22 percent), Tomatoes (2.11 percent), Tea Prepared (1.09 percent) and Curd (1.08 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 23 (45.10 percent) items increased, 13 (25.49 percent) items decreased and 15 (29.41 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts increase of 45.72 percent, Cigarettes (138.50 percent), Tea Lipton (114.93 percent), Potatoes (114.69 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Bananas (104.44 percent), Gents Sponge Chappal (100.33 percent), Wheat Flour (90.77 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (86.30 percent), Eggs (85.86 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (80.44 percent), Petrol (79.85 percent), Diesel (78.68 percent), Pulse Moong (66.79 percent), Bread (63.17 percent) and Pulse Mash (57.06 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (38.30 percent), Onions (30.18 percent) and Chilies Powdered (6.48 percent).
