The weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), decreased by 0.64 percent for the combined consumption group during the week ended on December 04, 2025, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday.
According to the PBS data, the SPI for the week under review was recorded at 335.84 points, down from 337.99 points last week. On a year-on-year basis, the SPI rose by 4.00 percent.
The weekly SPI with base year 2015-16=100 covers 17 urban centres and 51 essential items for all expenditure groups.
The SPI for the lowest consumption group (up to Rs17,732) decreased by 0.96 percent, to 327.70 points from 330.88 points.
The SPI for consumption groups of Rs17,733-22,888; Rs22,889-29,517; Rs29,518-44,175; and above Rs44,175 decreased by 0.88 percent, 0.73 percent, 0.69 percent, and 0.53 percent, respectively.
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 13 (25.49%) items increased, 15 (29.41%) items decreased, and 23 (45.10%) items remained stable. The major commodities that registered a week-on-week decrease included Tomatoes (30.11%), Onions (12.41%), Potatoes (6.92%), Chicken (4.46%), Sugar (3.31%), Diesel (1.67%), Pulse Gram (1.55%), Pulse Masoor (1.33%), Gur (1.00%) and Petrol (0.73%).
Items showing an increase in prices included LPG (3.50%), Garlic (1.86%), Cooking Oil 5 Litre (1.54%), Eggs (0.81%), Bread (0.57%), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (0.40%), Powdered Milk (0.36%), Bananas and Wheat Flour (0.28%) each and Cigarettes (0.25%).
On a year-on-year basis, the major increases were observed in the prices of Sugar (37.49%), Gas Charges for Q1 (29.85%), Wheat Flour (17.50%), Gur (15.06%), Beef (13.47%), Firewood (12.59%), Bananas (11.06%), Powdered Milk (9.03%), Diesel (8.42%), Lawn Printed (8.29%), Cooking Oil 5 Litre (8.19%) and Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (7.59%).
Commodities witnessing a year-on-year decline included Potatoes (40.47%), Garlic (38.51%), Tomatoes (31.51%), Onions (29.87%), Pulse Gram (29.54%), Tea Lipton (17.79%), Pulse Mash (13.82%), Electricity Charges for Q1 (8.40%) and Salt Powder (5.13%).