Weekly inflation in Pakistan drops by 0.46 percent

The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday that weekly inflation, based on the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), fell by 0.46 percent for the combined consumption group during the week that ended on November 12, 2026.

PBS data shows the SPI for that week dropped to 372.90 points, down from the 374.61 points recorded in the preceding week. On a year-on-year basis, however, the SPI rose by 11.21 percent.

The weekly SPI uses a base year of 2015-16=100 and tracks 51 essential items across 17 urban centres for all expenditure groups. While the combined group saw a decrease, the SPI for the lowest consumption group (up to Rs 17,732) actually rose by 0.03 percent to 361.12 points from 361.00 points.

Other consumption groups saw varying levels of decline during the week:

Rs 17,733–22,888: decreased by 0.09 percent

Rs 22,889–29,517: decreased by 0.17 percent

Rs 29,518–44,175: decreased by 0.32 percent

Above Rs 44,175: decreased by 0.68 percent

Of the 51 items monitored, prices for 19 items (37.25 percent) went up, while nine items (17.65 percent) saw price drops. The remaining 23 items (45.10 percent) stayed at the same price.

Specific items that saw price decreases on a week-on-week basis included petrol (7.42%), diesel (6.10%), onions (1.70%), bananas (1.03%), gur (0.59%), sugar (0.43%), powdered milk (0.36%), pulse moong (0.32%), and pulse gram (0.08%).

Conversely, prices rose for tomatoes (12.06%), eggs (5.98%), potatoes (2.42%), garlic (1.76%), chicken (1.32%), firewood (1.10%), wheat flour (0.94%), pulse masoor (0.64%), beef (0.47%), and LPG (0.30%).

Year-on-year data revealed significant price spikes for LPG (111.35%), tomatoes (78.94%), electricity for q1 (52.38%), wheat flour (36.14%), diesel (30.77%), petrol (26.23%), onions (19.67%), chilies powder (15.55%), mutton (14.67%), bread plain (12.35%), beef (11.30%), and chicken (10.98%).

Year-on-year decreases were noted for potatoes (36.41%), sugar (24.54%), eggs (23.29%), salt powder (12.51%), pulse masoor (7.21%), pulse moong (6.83%), gur (6.63%), and bananas (3.35%).