ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s inflation rate has recorded at 4.1 percent during July this year, which is under the government’s projections. The inflation rate has been recorded at 4.1 percent during July 2025, according to the latest data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) released on Friday. On month-on-month basis, it increased by 2.9 percent in July 2025 as compared to an increase of 0.2 percent in the previous month and an increase of 2.1 percent in July 2025.
The CPI inflation urban remained at 4.4 percent on a year-on-year basis in the last month. Meanwhile, the CPI inflation for rural areas has increased by 3.5 percent in July 2025. Meanwhile, an inflation measure by Sensitive Price Index (SPI) has decreased by 1.42 percent and Wholesale Price Indicator (WPI) based inflation has dropped by 0.49 percent. The inflation remained in the projections of the government during the previous month. “Inflation is projected to remain within 3.5 to 4.5 percent, though risks from recent heavy rains may affect agricultural yields and supply chains,” the Ministry of Finance noted in its monthly Economic Update and Outlook July 2025.
The break-up of inflation of 4.1 percent showed that food and non-alcoholic beverages prices increased by 0.89 percent last month. Similarly, health and education charges went up by 10.77 percent and 10.22 percent, respectively. Similarly, prices of utilities (housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel) increased by 3.56 percent in the last month. Meanwhile, the prices of alcoholic beverages and tobacco went up by around 3.66 percent. Prices of clothing and footwear increased by 8.35 percent and furnishing and household equipment maintenance charges 3.32 percent. Recreational charges and those related to culture went down by 1.47 percent in the period under review, while amounts charged by restaurants and hotels by 7.66 percent in July 2025 as compared to the same month last year.
In rural areas, the food items which saw their prices increased included fresh vegetables (56.29 percent), tomatoes (25.59 percent), chicken (23.03 percent), onions (11.28 percent), potatoes (10.95 percent), sugar (6.02 percent), gur (4.40 percent), milk powder (1.20 percent), readymade food (1.17 percent), besan (0.83 percent), meat (0.78 percent), butter (0.58 percent) and beverages (0.42 percent). In non-food commodities, prices of following items enhanced electricity charges (14.18 percent), motor fuels (4.78 percent), doctor clinic fee (2.75 percent), transport services (2.11 percent), house rent (1.57 percent), readymade garments (1.45 percent), plastic products (1.29 percent), communication apparatus (0.81 percent), cotton cloth (0.79 percent) and motor vehicles (0.77 percent).
In rural areas prices of the following items decreased, including eggs (15.07 percent), fresh fruits (7.09 percent), wheat products (2.07 percent), wheat flour (1.49 percent), wheat and pulse mash (1.04 percent) each, condiments and spices (1.02 percent), fish (0.83 percent), pulse gram (0.82 percent), mustard oil (0.71 percent), tea (0.69 percent), beans (0.61 percent), pulse moong (0.60 percent), gram whole (0.53 percent), pulse masoor (0.32 percent), rice (0.03 percent) and dry fruits (0.03 percent). In urban areas, prices of following commodities increased including fresh vegetables (45.76 percent), chicken (29.73 percent), tomatoes (19.92 percent), potatoes (10.97 percent), onions (9.36 percent), sugar (6.11 percent), gur (3.48 percent), rice (1.46 percent), meat (0.61 percent), butter (0.55 percent), milk powder (0.48 percent), pulse masoor (0.46 percent), milk products (0.33 percent), milk fresh (0.28 percent) and pulse gram (0.26 percent).
