Inflation & prices
How prices move in Pakistan, from the headline number down to the group and the city. Sources are the PBS (CPI, WPI, SPI) and the SBP (inflation measures).
| Modules | economic (CPI flagships), prices (inflation measures, cost of living) |
| Frequency | Monthly (CPI, WPI); weekly (cost-of-living index) |
| Endpoint | GET /v1/series/{id} |
Headline CPI & WPI (PBS, base 2015-16)
| Id | What it is | History |
|---|---|---|
inflation.cpi.national.yoy |
Headline CPI inflation, year-on-year % | Jul 2017 → |
inflation.cpi.national · inflation.cpi.urban · inflation.cpi.rural |
CPI index levels | Jul 2017 → |
inflation.cpi.urban.yoy · inflation.cpi.rural.yoy |
Urban and rural YoY % | Jul 2017 → |
inflation.wpi · inflation.wpi.yoy |
Wholesale Price Index and its YoY | Jul 2017 → |
CPI by COICOP group
Urban groups from 2019 and rural groups from 2016, 13 groups each: inflation.cpi.urban.<group> / inflation.cpi.rural.<group>, where <group> is one of general, food, alcohol_tobacco, clothing, housing, furnishing, health, transport, communication, recreation, education, restaurants, misc.
curl -H "X-API-Key: pk_live_xxx" \
"https://api.pakdatahub.com/v1/series/inflation.cpi.urban.food?transform=yoy&from=2022-01-01&sort=asc"
Inflation measures (SBP, Jul 2016 →)
YoY, MoM and period-average rates for national, urban and rural CPI, food, non-food, core (NFNE) and WPI:
| Id | What it is |
|---|---|
inflation.national_cpi_inflation_measure_year_year |
National CPI, YoY % |
inflation.national_cpi_inflation_measure_month_month |
National CPI, MoM % |
inflation.urban_food_cpi_inflation_measure_year_year |
Urban food inflation, YoY % |
inflation.urban_nfne_core_inflation_inflation_measure |
Urban core inflation (non-food non-energy) |
inflation.rural_nfne_core_inflation_inflation_measure |
Rural core inflation |
inflation.wpi_food_inflation_measure_year_year |
WPI food, YoY % |
Long-run CPI inflation back to 1964 (monthly, to 2020): industry.general_cpi_inflation_measure_year_year_2.
Cost of living by city (weekly)
cost_of_living.<city> for 17 cities plus cost_of_living.national. It's an index (first week = 100) built from the weekly SPI prices of essentials, so you can compare how fast living costs are rising in karachi, lahore, peshawar, quetta and the other cities. There's a free tool: cost of living by city.
The item-level weekly prices are in Commodities.
Use cases: real (inflation-adjusted) values, wage and contract indexation, rate forecasting, food-vs-fuel shock decomposition. See the free inflation calculator and the inflation module page.