According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), inflation and costs measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) rose by 0.05 % points for the week ending August 24, 2023, as both food and non-food prices went up.
Wheat flour (129%), gas charges for Q1 (108%), cigarettes (102%), tea lipton (94%), rice basmati broken (89%), chillies powder (86%), sugar (81%), rice irri-6/9 (80%), gur (63%), salt powdered (49%), chicken (48.5%, and bread (46%) all increased in price from the previous year, while tomatoes (40 percent) decreased in price.
Cost of many items rose
Of the 51 products we tracked, 22 (or 43.14%) saw price increases, 12 (or 25.53%) saw price decreases, and 17 (or 33.33%) saw no change in price over the past week.
Onions (up 23.56%), pulse masoor (up 3.66%), sugar (up 3.43%), garlic (up 2.17%), eggs (up 2.13%), cooked daal (up 2.04%), cooked beef (up 1.50%), gur (up 1.10%), toilet soap (up 0.82%), pulse moong (up 0.58%), rice basmati broken (up 0.56%), milk (up 0.26%), and mutton (up 0.26%) were among the items
Tomatoes (22.16 percent), chicken (5.44%), rice irri-6/9 (1.70%), potatoes (1.43%), bananas (1.22%), mustard oil (0.87%), pulse gramme (0.49%), LPG (0.43%), and wheat flour bag 20 kg (0.25%) were among the selected items whose average prices fell during the week compared to the previous.
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