Live Consumer Price Index inflation rate from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics — current year-on-year change, month-on-month momentum, and the full historical series back to July 2022.
Quick answer: As of , Pakistan's year-on-year CPI inflation rate is 11.66%, up from 10.89% in April 2026. The CPI index stands at 294.34 (base 2015-16 = 100). This figure refreshes automatically — see the live number in the card below.
PBS tracks a fixed basket of goods and services — food, housing, transport, clothing, education, healthcare and more — priced monthly across major urban centres. Each item is weighted by its share of average household spending, and the results are combined into a single index number:
The index is set to 100 in the base period — currently 2015-16. Every value on this page is measured relative to that base, so an index of 294 means prices are, on average, 194% higher than they were in 2015-16.
Year-on-year (YoY) inflation — the headline number usually quoted in the news — compares this month's index to the same month last year:
Month-on-month (MoM) inflation compares this month to last month, and is more useful for spotting short-term momentum:
The figures above are fetched live from PBS's own data feed (distributed via the IMF's SDMX Central platform) — the same underlying index behind PBS's official monthly press releases. This automated feed can occasionally lag the official announcement by a few days.
| Period | Index | MoM % | YoY % |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 294.34 | +0.52% | +11.66% |
| Apr 2026 | 292.81 | +2.48% | +10.89% |
| Mar 2026 | 285.73 | +1.18% | +7.30% |
| Feb 2026 | 282.39 | +0.27% | +6.98% |
| Jan 2026 | 281.62 | +0.39% | +5.80% |
| Dec 2025 | 280.53 | -0.44% | +5.61% |
| Nov 2025 | 281.78 | +0.40% | +6.15% |
| Oct 2025 | 280.66 | +1.68% | +6.24% |
| Sep 2025 | 276.01 | +2.09% | +5.77% |
| Aug 2025 | 270.35 | -0.59% | +3.06% |
| Jul 2025 | 271.94 | +2.92% | +4.07% |
| Jun 2025 | 264.22 | +0.23% | +3.23% |
| May 2025 | 263.60 | -0.17% | +3.46% |
| Apr 2025 | 264.06 | -0.84% | +0.28% |
| Mar 2025 | 266.29 | +0.89% | +0.69% |
| Feb 2025 | 263.95 | -0.83% | +1.52% |
| Jan 2025 | 266.17 | +0.20% | +2.41% |
| Dec 2024 | 265.63 | +0.06% | +4.07% |
| Nov 2024 | 265.46 | +0.49% | +4.86% |
| Oct 2024 | 264.17 | +1.23% | +7.09% |
| Sep 2024 | 260.96 | -0.52% | +6.93% |
| Aug 2024 | 262.32 | +0.39% | +9.64% |
| Jul 2024 | 261.32 | +2.10% | +11.09% |
| Jun 2024 | 255.94 | +0.46% | +12.57% |