The weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), decreased by 0.67 percent for the combined consumption group during the week ended on January 1st 2026, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday.
According to the PBS data, the SPI for the week under review was recorded at 333.96 points, up from 336.22 points last week. On a year-on-year basis, the SPI increased by 2.41 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 Rs 17,732) decreased by 0.62 percent, to 323.98 points from 326.00 points.
The SPI for consumption groups of Rs 17,733-22,888; Rs 22,889-29,517; Rs 29,518-44,175; and above Rs 44,175 decreased by 0.61 percent, 0.57 percent, 0.63 percent and 0.73 percent, respectively.
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 12 (23.53%) items increased, 13 (25.49%) items decreased and 26 (50.98%) items remained stable.
Major commodities registering a week-on-week decrease included onions (11.84%), potatoes (10.21%), eggs (6.25%), petrol (3.89%), diesel (3.20%), sugar (2.88%), pulse gram (2.32%), pulse masoor (1.80%), LPG (1.31%), gur (1.12%) and pulse mash (1.05%).
Items showing an increase in prices included chicken (2.37%), wheat flour (1.88%), tomatoes (1.72%), bananas (1.13%), garlic (1.11%), rice basmati broken (0.96%), rice irri-6/9 (0.75%), vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (0.44%) and firewood (0.01%).
On a year-on-year basis, major increases were observed in the prices of gas charges for q1 (29.85%), wheat flour (24.98%), beef (12.95%), sugar (11.90%), bananas (10.63%), gur (10.57%), firewood (10.43%), chilies powder (10.31%), powdered milk (9.51%), lawn printed (8.29%), shirting (8.07%) and mutton (7.43%).
Commodities witnessing year-on-year decline included tomatoes (70.52%), potatoes (52.25%), onions (40.54%), garlic (37.35%), pulse gram (31.06%), tea packet (17.79%), pulse mash (14.01%), pulse masoor (8.38%), LPG (2.23%) and diesel (0.30%).