ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI)-based weekly inflation decreased by 0.46 percent during the week ended on November 12, 2026, for the combined consumption group, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported here on Friday.
According to PBS data, the SPI for the week under review decreased to 372.90 points from 374.61 points recorded in the previous week. On a year-on-year basis, the SPI increased by 11.21 percent.
The weekly SPI, with base year 2015-16=100, covers 17 urban centres and 51 essential items for all expenditure groups.
However, the SPI for the lowest consumption group (up to Rs 17,732) increased by 0.03 percent to 361.12 points from 361.00 points.
Likewise, 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 0.09 percent, 0.17 percent, 0.32 percent and 0.68 percent respectively.
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 19 items (37.25 percent) increased, nine items (17.65 percent) decreased, while 23 items (45.10 percent) remained unchanged.
On a week-on-week basis, the items that witnessed a decrease in prices 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%).
On the other hand, increase was observed in the prices of 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%).
On a year-on-year basis, major increase was observed in the prices of 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%).
On the other hand, decrease was observed in the prices of 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%).