ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate has maintained its sliding trend on Monday, beating more than a 9-year low at 1.51 percent year-on-year (YoY) in February.
According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), CPI inflation stood at 1.5pc on year-on-year basis in February 2025 as compared to 2.4pc in the previous month and 23.1pc in February 2024.
The Food item prices that increased included: Pulse moong (32.65pc), besan (28.97pc), pulse gram (25.40pc), potatoes (22.88pc), fresh fruits (21.55pc), butter (21.12pc), honey (20.77pc), milk powder (20.58pc), and meat (18.59pc).
Experts noted that the current scenario is one of disinflation, which depicts a downward tendency in the pace of the inflation rate, while deflation (the opposite of inflation) occurs when general price levels fall.
“Pakistan CPI for month of Feb-2025 has clocked in at 1.5pc, lowest reading in 113 months,” Topline Securities, a brokerage firm in Karachi, noted.
The experts noted the number to be the “lowest since September 2015”.
