Islamabad July 22 2022: Pakistan household inflation measured by SPI for the current week ended on 21st July, 2022 recorded a decrease of 0.22%.
During the last seven weeks SPI went up from 174 to over 200.
Decrease observed in the prices of food items, Tomatoes (7.04%), Bananas (3.34%), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (1.14%), Onions (0.46%), Sugar (0.44%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (0.42%), Gur (0.32%) and Rice Basmati Broken (0.19%), non-food items Diesel (14.62%) and Petrol (7.41%), with joint impact of (-1.03%) into the overall SPI for combined group of (-0.22%).
On the other hand, an increase observed in the prices of Chicken (3.80%), Georgette (3.44%), Shirting (2.53%), Garlic (2.25%), Pulse Mash (2.07%), Potatoes (1.56%), Pulse Masoor (1.43%), Pulse Moong (1.39%), Cooking Oil 5 litre (1.35%) and Tea Lipton (1.29%).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 31 (60.78%) items increased, 11 (21.57%) items decreased and 09 (17.65%) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts an increase of 32.82%, Diesel (106.16%), Petrol (103.34%), Pulse Masoor (91.29%), Onions (88.46%), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (76.85%), Mustard Oil (75.78%), Cooking Oil 5 litre (75.35%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (71.71%), Washing Soap (60.25%), Chicken (58.41%), Gents Sponge Chappal (52.21%), Pulse Gram (51.46%), Garlic (43.70%) and LPG (40.47%),while major decrease observed in the prices of Chillies Powdered (43.42%), Sugar (15.51%), Tomatoes (6.18%), Gur (2.72%) and Pulse Moong (0.72%).
