Pakistan weekly inflation stood at 45.49 percent on a year-on-year (YoY)basis for the week ended on May 25, 2023, showed data released by thePakistan Bureau of Statistics (PSB) on Friday.
The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended May11, 2023, recorded a decrease of 0.42 percent over the previous week due toa decrease in the prices of food and non-food items.ALSO READYear-on-year change
The year-on-year trend posted an increase due to increase in the prices ofCigarettes (138.50 percent), Tea Lipton (114.93 percent), Wheat Flour(110.17 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Bananas (99.58percent), Potatoes (98.10 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (81.24 percent),Rice Irri-6/9 (79.96 percent), Petrol (79.85 percent), Diesel (78.68percent), Eggs (69.55 percent), Pulse Moong (63.18 percent), Bread (63.17percent) and Pulse Mash (55.93 percent), while decrease was observed in theprices of Tomatoes (43.49 percent) and Onions (33.74 percent).Week-on-week change
On a week-on-week basis, a decrease was observed in the prices of fooditems, Chicken (8.91 percent), Wheat Flour (3.33 percent), Eggs (3.03percent), Garlic (2.83 percent), Tomatoes (2.61 percent), Onions (2.22percent), 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).
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On the other hand, an increase was observed in the prices of Energy Saver(4.91 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (1.86 percent), Cooked Beef (1.32percent), Mutton (1.22 percent), Milk Fresh (1.20 percent), Shirting (1.14percent) and Beef (1.03 percent).ALSO READ
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 18 (35.30 percent) itemsincreased, 16 (31.37 percent) items decreased and 17 (33.33 percent) itemsremained stable
