Weekly inflation tops 30% amid rising food prices, according to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PSB) on Friday.
Weekly inflation tops 30% amid rising food prices, according to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PSB) on Friday.
The annual trend shows an increase of 30.82%, mainly due to the increase in the price of wheat flour (131.81%), cigarettes (109.57%) and gas costs in the first quarter (108.81%).38%, Lipton Tea (95.19%), Broken Basmati Rice (84.09%), Chili Powder (72.94%), Irri 6/9 Rice (72.74%), Sugar (67%)90%), chicken (65.87%), waste (58.93%), potatoes (57.02%) and tomatoes (53.66%), while onion prices fell (28.0%).77%), Q1 stream (16.63%), vegetable mass (16.04%) and vegetable ghee 1 kg (1.93%).
Weekly Growth
The SPI index recorded an increase of 0 for the analyzed week.69% compared to the previous week. During the week there was a sharp increase in the prices of groceries, chilli powder (3.72%), milk powder (3.65%), legume puree (3.13%), garlic (2.0% vs.39%, sugar (2.30%), chicken (2.27%), salt (1.84%), eggs (1.74%).75 percent).
On the other hand, the prices of vegetable ghee 1 kg (1.59%), LPG (0.79%), cooking oil (0.78%) and mustard oil (0.79%) decreased.48%) and vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (0.10%).
During the week, prices of 29 (56.87%) items increased by 51 items, 05 (9.80% of the seats fell and 17 (33.33%) remained unchanged.
