ISLAMABAD: The prices of essential items have recorded 28 per cent increase Year on Year (YoY) by week ended June 16, 2022, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Friday.
The surge in prices have been seen following the massive increase in prices of petroleum products by the government during last three rounds: first on May 27, 2022; second on June 02, 2022; and the last one on June 15, 2022.
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However, the cumulative effect of inflation is expected to be seen in coming weeks.
The latest Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended June 16, 2022 has shown massive increase in prices of essential items over the same week last year.
Following are the rates that have witnessed increase during last one year:
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Onions (135.31 per cent), Diesel (132.61 per cent), Tomatoes (117.27 per cent), Petrol (110.16 per cent), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (81.76 per cent), Mustard Oil (80.88 per cent), Pulse Masoor (74.77 per cent), Cooking Oil 5 litre (71.52 per cent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (68.47 per cent), LPG (60.97 per cent), Garlic (57.72 per cent), Washing Soap (52.73 per cent), Gents Sponge Chappal (52.21 per cent) and Chicken (51.11 per cent).
There are some other essential items that have witnessed decline in prices on YoY basis:
Chillies Powdered (43.42 per cent), Pulse Moong (18.06 per cent), Sugar (10.79 per cent), Electricity charges for Q1 (5.85 per cent) and Gur (3.35 per cent).
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The comparison of prices of essential items on week on week basis, showed 3.38 per cent.
Increase observed in the prices of food items Chicken (12.10 per cent ), Potatoes (6.89 per cent), Cooked Daal (5.90 per cent), Pulse Gram (5.29 per cent) and Cooked Beef (5.19 per cent),non-food items Diesel (28.91 per cent), Gents Sponge Chappal (26.76 per cent), Gents Sandal (15.40 per cent), Petrol (11.43 per cent), Electricity Charges for Q1 (6.63 per cent) and Cigarettes (6.27 per cent), with joint impact of (2.53 per cent) into the overall SPI for combined group of (3.38 per cent).
On the other hand, decrease observed in the prices of Onions (5.20 per cent), Wheat Flour (2.19 per cent), LPG (1.32 per cent), Bananas (0.83 per cent), Gur (0.45 per cent) and Sugar (0.02 per cent).
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