Pakistan inflation rate (CPI)
National Consumer Price Index inflation, year-on-year percent, latest published month, from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives). Base year 2015-16 = 100. Released in the first days of the following month.
| Current value | 11.07 percent (YoY) |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-01 |
| Official source | Pakistan Bureau of Statistics — Monthly Review on Price Indices, June 2026 (Base Year 2015-16), Table 1: National CPI general index 293.47 in June 2026 vs 264.22 in June 2025, "increased by 11.07% over corresponding month of the last year" |
| Last verified | 2026-07-24 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Reference month June 2026; national CPI index 293.47 (2015-16=100); month-on-month -0.30% (the first monthly fall since December 2025, driven by a 7.22% drop in the Transport group as motor fuel prices unwound). Urban 11.17% YoY, rural 10.92% YoY. Core inflation (non-food non-energy) 8.7% urban / 7.9% rural; 20% trimmed mean 9.6% urban / 9.3% rural. SPI (lowest quintile) +12.82% YoY, WPI +10.69% YoY. FY2025-26 (July-June) average CPI inflation was 7.05%, against 4.49% in FY2024-25 — but the shape matters more than the average: inflation ran 5-7% through Q1-Q3 FY26 and then spiked from 7.30% in March to 10.89% in April and 11.66% in May on the Middle East energy shock (motor fuel +32% YoY, liquefied hydrocarbons +60.6% YoY, electricity +23.8% YoY) plus an unanticipated surge in wheat and wheat-flour prices (wheat +64.7% YoY urban). June's 11.07% is the first deceleration of that spike. Well above the SBP's 5-7% medium-term target range; the MPC expects inflation to stay in double digits 'for the next few months' before easing. CORRECTION TO THE BRIEF: the brief said inflation 'fell sharply through 2025 — verify current'. It did fall sharply (to 0.3% in April 2025), but that is stale — Pakistan is now in double-digit inflation. NOTE ON THE PBS PUBLICATION PATH: the monthly release PDF lives under an unintuitive WordPress upload path (/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Monthly-Review-<Month>-2026.pdf) regardless of the actual month; the human-readable landing page is https://www.pbs.gov.pk/monthly-inflation-report-for-june-2026/. Next release: July 2026 CPI, expected in the first days of August 2026.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | 5.8 | PBS — Monthly Review on Price Indices, January 2026: Nationa |
| 2026-02-01 | 6.98 | PBS — Monthly Review on Price Indices, February 2026: Nation |
| 2026-03-01 | 7.3 | PBS — Monthly Review on Price Indices, March 2026: National |
| 2026-04-01 | 10.89 | PBS — Monthly Review on Price Indices, April 2026: National |
| 2026-05-01 | 11.66 | PBS — Monthly Review on Price Indices, May 2026: National CP |
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