Weekly SPI inflation falls 0.46% in week to November 12

The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday that weekly inflation based on the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) fell 0.46 percent in the week ended November 12, 2026, for the combined consumption group.

The SPI declined to 372.90 points from 374.61 points in the previous week. Compared with the same week a year earlier, it was 11.21 percent higher.

The weekly SPI uses 2015-16 as its base year and covers 51 essential items in 17 urban centres for all expenditure groups. Of the 51 items, 19 (37.25 percent) became more expensive, nine (17.65 percent) became cheaper and 23 (45.10 percent) were unchanged.

Among items that fell week on week, petrol dropped 7.42 percent and diesel 6.10 percent. Onions fell 1.70 percent, bananas 1.03 percent, gur 0.59 percent, sugar 0.43 percent, powdered milk 0.36 percent, pulse moong 0.32 percent and pulse gram 0.08 percent.

Tomatoes rose 12.06 percent, eggs 5.98 percent and potatoes 2.42 percent. Garlic rose 1.76 percent, chicken 1.32 percent, firewood 1.10 percent, wheat flour 0.94 percent, pulse masoor 0.64 percent, beef 0.47 percent and LPG 0.30 percent.

The index moved differently across income groups. For the lowest group, with consumption up to Rs 17,732, it rose 0.03 percent to 361.12 points from 361.00. It fell 0.09 percent for the Rs 17,733 to Rs 22,888 group, 0.17 percent for Rs 22,889 to Rs 29,517, 0.32 percent for Rs 29,518 to Rs 44,175, and 0.68 percent for those above Rs 44,175.

Year on year, LPG rose 111.35 percent, tomatoes 78.94 percent, electricity for Q1 52.38 percent, wheat flour 36.14 percent, diesel 30.77 percent and petrol 26.23 percent. Potatoes fell 36.41 percent, sugar 24.54 percent and eggs 23.29 percent.