Pakistan’s combined Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), a weekly measure of short-term price movements, rose 0.21% in the week ended October 1, 2026, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported. The same index was 11.53% higher than in the corresponding week a year earlier. These are different comparisons: one is week over week; the other is year over year.
What the 0.21% weekly increase measures
The 0.21% figure is the change in the combined SPI from the previous week. It is not Pakistan’s monthly inflation rate and should not be read as a monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) result. PBS publishes the weekly SPI and monthly CPI as separate measures with different scopes. Its price statistics overview describes both series.
PBS says the SPI is computed weekly to assess short-term movements in essential commodity prices. The index covers 51 essential items, using price information collected from 50 markets in 17 cities. It offers a frequent snapshot of monitored prices, rather than a complete measure of every household’s spending or the full monthly inflation picture. See the PBS executive summary for the week ended October 1, 2026.
Weekly change versus annual change
| Measure | Reported change | Comparison |
|---|---|---|
| Combined SPI | 0.21% increase | Week ended October 1, 2026, versus the preceding week, according to PBS |
| Combined SPI | 11.53% increase | Week ended October 1, 2026, versus the corresponding week one year earlier, according to PBS |
The 11.53% year-over-year reading means the index was higher than a year earlier; it does not mean prices rose 11.53% during the latest week. Likewise, the weekly change does not by itself describe the change in the cost of living over a full year.
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Which monitored prices went up or down?
In PBS’s item list, chicken had the largest weekly increase, at 7.25%, while diesel had the largest decrease, at 3.43%. The item movements are not the same as contributions to the overall index: the summary does not quantify how much any individual item added to or subtracted from the combined 0.21% movement.
| Direction | Items and weekly price changes reported by PBS |
|---|---|
| Increased | Chicken 7.25%; garlic 1.85%; pulse gram 1.30%; LPG 1.17%; eggs 0.72%; rice IRRI-6/9 0.55%; onions 0.39%; washing soap 0.33%; wheat flour 0.29%; long cloth 0.19%; lawn printed 0.19%. |
| Decreased | Diesel 3.43%; bananas 1.52%; sugar 1.05%; potatoes 0.96%; petrol 0.65%; pulse moong 0.63%; tomatoes 0.51%; pulse masoor 0.42%; gur 0.12%; powdered milk 0.10%. |
| Unchanged | 21 of the 51 monitored items (41.18%); PBS’s summary does not list their names in the figures cited here. |
Across all 51 items, PBS reported that 20 increased (39.21%), 10 decreased (19.61%) and 21 were unchanged (41.18%). The percentages describe how many listed items moved in each direction, not their relative weight in the combined SPI.
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How this reading compares with the previous week
The prior weekly release recorded a 0.99% increase for the week ended September 24, 2026. The 0.21% rise for the following week was smaller, but two consecutive readings are not enough to establish a lasting inflation trend. The earlier figure is in the PBS release for the week ended September 24, 2026.
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