Islamabad May 10 2024: Pakistan household inflation, the SPI, for the current week ended on May 09, 2024 decreased by 1.39 percent.
Major decrease is observed in the prices of Onions (19.22 percent), Chicken (18.83 percent), Wheat Flour (4.00 percent), LPG (3.67 percent), Bananas (2.32 percent), Garlic (1.44 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (0.75 percent), Mustard Oil & Sugar (0.48 percent) each, and Firewood (0.23 percent).
On the other hand, major increase is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (19.24 percent), Eggs (4.73 percent), Potatoes (4.38 percent), Pulse Gram (0.91 percent), Cooking Oil 5 Litre (0.89 percent), Beef (0.64 percent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (0.44 percent) and Milk Fresh (0.41 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 12 (23.53 percent) items increased, 13 (25.49 percent) items decreased and 26 (50.98 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts major increase of 22.32 percent, Gas Charges for Q1 (570.00 percent), Onions (118.58 percent), Tomatoes (101.24 percent), Garlic (72.38 percent), Chilies Powder (71.96 percent), Salt Powder (32.59 percent), Energy Saver (29.83 percent), Shirting (29.71 percent), Gents Sandal (25.01 percent), Pulse Mash (23.70 percent), Beef (23.30 percent) and Tea Prepared (20.08 percent) while decrease is observed in the prices of Bananas (38.79 percent), Wheat Flour (28.21 percent), Chicken (20.27 percent), Cooking Oil 5 Litre (19.74 percent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (16.73 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (16.67 percent), Mustard Oil (13.11 percent), LPG (10.52 percent), Eggs (7.91 percent) and Diesel (2.04 percent).
