Karachi May 26 2023: Pakistan Household inflation, measured by the SPI, for the current week ended on 25th May, 2023 decreased by 0.42 percent, reveled by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Friday.
Major decrease is observed in the prices of food items, Chicken (8.91 percent), Wheat Flour (3.33 percent), Eggs (3.03 percent), Garlic (2.83 percent), Tomatoes (2.61 percent), Onions (2.22 percent), Bananas (2.04 percent), Pulse Moong (1.51 percent), Pulse Masoor (1.26 percent), Cooking Oil 5 Litre (1.01 percent) and non-food item, LPG (3.44 percent).
On the other hand major increase is observed in the prices of Energy Saver (4.91 percent), Long Cloth (2.75 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (1.86 percent), Cooked Beef (1.32 percent), Mutton (1.22 percent), Milk Fresh (1.20 percent), Shirting (1.14 percent) and Beef (1.03 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 18 (35.30 percent) items increased, 16 (31.37 percent) items decreased and 17 (33.33 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts increase of 45.49 percent, Cigarettes (138.50 percent), Tea Lipton (114.93 percent), Wheat Flour (110.17 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Gents Sponge Chappal (100.33 percent), Bananas (99.58 percent), Potatoes (98.10 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (81.24 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (79.96 percent), Petrol (79.85 percent), Diesel (78.68 percent), Eggs (69.55 percent), Pulse Moong (63.18 percent), Bread (63.17 percent) and Pulse Mash (55.93 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (43.49 percent) and Onions (33.74 percent).
