Inflation rate in Pakistan (CPI, year-on-year)
Headline consumer price inflation for the month compared with the same month a year earlier, as published by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics at the start of each month.
As of · Pakistan Bureau of Statistics: Monthly CPI · updated monthly
4.5%▼ 0.3 pts since 1 Jul 2026
- 1 week
- ▼ 0.3 pts
- 1 month
- ▼ 0.3 pts
History
Key factsas of 1 Aug 2026
- Inflation rate in Pakistan (CPI, year-on-year)
- 4.5% %
- Change since 1 Jul 2026
- -0.3% %
- Lowest on record (1 Sept 2025 to 1 Aug 2026)
- 4.5% %
- Highest on record
- 6.2% %
- Source
- Pakistan Bureau of Statistics: Monthly CPI
- Updated
- monthly
About this number
Inflation here is the national Consumer Price Index, year on year, published monthly by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics at the start of each month for the month before. It drives the policy rate decision, pension and salary adjustments and the real return on savings.
Questions people ask
- When is the next CPI released?
- PBS publishes monthly CPI in the first week of the following month.
The news behind the number
| Date | Value | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Aug 2026 | 4.5% | ▼ 0.3 pts | |
| 1 Jul 2026 | 4.8% | ▲ 0.1 pts | |
| 1 Jun 2026 | 4.7% | ▲ 0.1 pts | |
| 1 May 2026 | 4.6% | ▼ 0.1 pts | |
| 1 Apr 2026 | 4.7% | ▼ 0.2 pts | |
| 1 Mar 2026 | 4.9% | ▼ 0.3 pts | |
| 1 Feb 2026 | 5.2% | ▲ 0.2 pts | |
| 1 Jan 2026 | 5% | ▲ 0.4 pts | |
| 1 Dec 2025 | 4.6% | ▼ 1.6 pts | |
| 1 Nov 2025 | 6.2% | unchanged | |
| 1 Oct 2025 | 6.2% | ▲ 0.6 pts | |
| 1 Sept 2025 | 5.6% | first |