Islamabad February 24 2023: Pakistan household inflation measure by the SPI for the current week ended on 23rd February, 2023 recorded an increase of 2.78 percent to reach 41.5 percent.
Major increase is observed in the prices of food items, Bananas (6.67 percent), Chicken (5.27 percent), Sugar (3.37 percent), Cooking Oil 5 litre (3.07 percent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (2.79 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (2.20 percent) and Tea Prepared (1.09 percent), non-food items, Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent) and Cigarettes (76.45 percent).
On the other hand decrease is observed in the prices of Onions (13.84 percent), Eggs (5.50 percent), Tomatoes (4.23 percent), Garlic (3.03 percent), LPG (0.81 percent) and Pulse Gram (0.21).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 33 (64.71 percent) items increased, 06 (11.76 percent) items decreased and 12 (23.53 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts an increase of 41.54 percent, Onions (372.03 percent), Cigarettes (164.71 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Chicken (85.65 percent), Diesel (81.36 percent), Eggs (75.81 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (75.41 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (74.16 percent), Bananas (72.22 percent), Pulse Moong (70.39 percent), Petrol (69.87 percent), Tea Lipton (62.76 percent), Pulse Gram (57.02 percent), Bread (55.36 percent), Pulse Mash (53.90 percent) and LPG (52.59 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (67.93 percent), Chillies Powdered (7.42 percent) and Electricity charges for Q1 (6.64 percent).
