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Consumer prices · 323 categories · latest 2026-09-01

CoverageNational-office detail
Price-series levelsLevels 1–3
Weight levelsLevels 1–3
Weight historySingle snapshot · 2015-01-01
Source detailPBS urban and rural commodity groups
Series / concepts981 / 325
Period range2008-07-01 to 2026-09-01
Last successful ingest2026-10-28
Last changed vintage2026-10-07
International Monetary Fund, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics Frequencies: A, M

Consumer price index

Source

The same category from more than one publisher. The national statistics office is the record; the IMF's series are its own compilation and can differ in definition, coverage and vintage.

Series family

PBS publishes the 2015-16 and 2007-08 baskets as separate index families; no series is spliced across bases.

Geography

PBS publishes detailed urban and rural baskets separately. The national series is a headline aggregate and is not silently substituted for either detailed basket.

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Sources: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Price Statistics, https://www.pbs.gov.pk/price-statistics/. (as of 2026-09-15); International Monetary Fund (as of 2026-10-03). Collected by Living Inflation Data, HBS Innovations in Economic Measurement (IEM) Lab www.iemlab.org.

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1 recorded finding for this country, shown exactly as in the full quality register.

    
CountrySourcePeriodsStatusSeries
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Bahrain, Kingdom of, Bangladesh, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of, Djibouti, Gabon, PakistanIMF2019-12-01, 2025-05-01, 2017-01-01, 2009-12-01, 2014-06-01, 2014-07-01, 2019-04-01, 2012-07-01confirmedBGD.CPI_CP09_*, BHR.CPI_CP09_*, COD.CPI_CP07_* +5 more2026-09-02Single-month index anomaly
Eight single bad months in eight countries, one division each, with nothing tying them together beyond the shape and the source. Kept as one entry rather than eight near-identical ones, with every case named so none is hidden behind a summary: Bangladesh recreation 149.90 in Dec 2019 between 98.1 and 98.6; Bahrain recreation 101.7 in May 2025 between 64.3 and 67.6; DR Congo transport 98.1 in Jan 2017 between 130.5 and 131.2; Congo communication 111.2 in Dec 2009 between 72.7 and 78.2; Djibouti alcohol and tobacco 158.8 in Jun 2014 between 80.7 and 89.9; Gabon communication 100.3 in Jul 2014 between 135.0 and 138.8; Pakistan restaurants 237.3 in Apr 2019 between 119.5 and 120.8, almost exactly double; Chad housing 60.2 in Jul 2012 between 84.0 and 89.4. In every case the two neighbours agree with each other far more closely than either agrees with the flagged month, and the series continues from where it left off.