Pakistan Inflation Rate

Last Release

Oct 31, 2025

Actual

6.2

Units In

5.6

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Dec 02, 2025

Time to Release

0 Days 8 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
37.97 May 2023	-10.32 Feb 1959	8.37 %	1957-2025	Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

In Pakistan, most important categories in the consumer price index are food and non-alcoholic beverages (35 percent of total weight); housing, water, electricity, gas and fuels (29 percent); clothing and footwear (8 percent) and transport (7 percent). The index also includes furnishings and household equipment (4 percent), education (4 percent), communication (3 percent) and health (2 percent). The remaining 8 percent is composed by: recreation and culture, restaurants and hotels, alcoholic beverages and tobacco and other goods and services.

Latest Updates

Pakistan's annual inflation rate slightly eased to 6.1% in November 2025 from a one-year high of 6.2% in October. Price growth marginally slowed for food and non-alcoholic beverages (5.5% vs 5.6% in October), as the decline in perishable food items (-3.7% vs -1.7%) was offset by a pick-up in inflation for non-perishable food items (7.3% vs 6.3%). Inflation also eased for clothing and footwear (6.5% vs 8.1%), furnishing and household maintenance (3.5% vs 4.0%), health (8.3% vs 9.7%), and restaurants and hotels (5.3% vs 6.1%). Meanwhile, costs continued to decline for recreation and culture (-4.1% vs -3.7%). Conversely, price growth accelerated for housing and utilities to 5.3% from 4.2% in October. On a monthly basis, consumer prices rose 0.4%, following a 1.8% jump in the previous period. In the meantime, annual urban inflation increased to 6.1% from 6.0% in October, while the rural inflation rate eased to 6.3% from 6.6%.