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ISLAMABAD
Pakistan’s weekly inflation, measured through the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), fell by 0.59% for the week ending November 6, 2025, mainly due to a sharp drop in food prices, according to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Friday.
The PBS report showed that the decline was driven primarily by a significant fall in tomato prices — down 37.93% — along with notable reductions in the prices of onions (4.88%), garlic (3.23%), gram pulse (1.58%), chicken (0.68%), sugar (0.64%), gur (0.60%), masoor pulse (0.55%), and LPG (0.15%).
Conversely, price increases were recorded in eggs (2.40%), bananas (2.32%), firewood (1.61%), diesel (1.12%), beef (0.93%), prepared tea (0.92%), petrol (0.91%), bread (0.55%), wheat flour (0.34%), powdered milk (0.31%), and cooking oil (0.21%).
Out of the 51 essential items tracked by PBS across 50 markets in 17 cities, prices of 18 items (35.3%) rose, 12 items (23.5%) declined, while 21 items (41.2%) remained unchanged.
On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, the SPI showed an overall inflation increase of 4.18%. The steepest annual price hikes were recorded for ladies’ sandals (55.62%), sugar (43.67%), gas charges for Q1 (29.85%), wheat flour (19.50%), gur (18.88%), firewood (14.25%), beef (14.09%), and vegetable ghee (up to 11.53%).
Meanwhile, major year-on-year declines were observed in garlic (33.54%), gram pulse (29.82%), electricity charges for Q1 (26.26%), potatoes (22.32%), tomatoes (19.69%), branded tea (17.79%), pulse mash (15.52%), chicken (15.16%), LPG (9.14%), and masoor pulse (4.95%).
The Sensitive Price Indicator, which tracks short-term price movements of 51 key consumer items, serves as a key gauge of weekly inflation trends and provides policymakers with early signals of market price pressures.
