Pakistan's weekly inflation rises 0.29%, yearly rate reaches 12.31%

Pakistan’s Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) rose 0.29% in the week ended November 5, while annual inflation reached 12.31%, according to figures reported by Profit by Pakistan Today from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The weekly gain followed a 0.35% decline in the previous week, and the annual rate was the highest recorded in the report’s ten-week period. The index stood at 374.61, compared with 373.51 a week earlier and 333.55 in the corresponding week of November 2025.

Tomato prices climbed 54.18% weekly and added about 0.49 percentage points to the index, while LPG rose 3.72%. Lower petrol and diesel prices partly offset those increases: petrol fell 4.20%, reducing the SPI by about 0.39 percentage points, and diesel declined 2.97%. Weekly inflation was 0.86% for households spending up to Rs17,732 per month, versus 0.10% for those spending more than Rs44,175; the annual rate for the full index reached 12.31%.