Inflation
Consumer prices, change on a year earlier
−0.8 pts since Aug 2026
- Month on month
- +1.3%
- A year ago
- 5.6%
- Policy rate
- 12.0%
What things cost, what the country holds, how the market is doing, whether the lights stay on and how safe it is, kept up to date from the official figures.
Each one is a page of its own, with the long chart and every reading, and each one can sit on your site.
Consumer prices, change on a year earlier
−0.8 pts since Aug 2026
Rupees a litre at the pump
−3.19 since 27 Oct 2026
Liquid foreign exchange reserves, billions of dollars
+0.02 since 9 Oct 2026
Rupees to the US dollar
−0.18 since 20 Oct 2026
The KSE-100 index at the close
+1,429 since 26 Oct 2026
Electricity shortfall at peak, megawatts, as reported
+400 since 29 Aug 2026
Unofficial NTDC sources, not named (“more than 4,000”), reported by ProPakistani
On the recordUnofficial, source not named
| Tracker | Source | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Inflation | Pakistan Bureau of Statistics | Out in the first days of each month |
| Petrol | OGRA price sheets, PSO | OGRA sets the price each working day (every fortnight until March 2026); updates itself |
| Reserves | State Bank of Pakistan | Out every Thursday |
| The rupee | Market rates, five-day median | Updates itself every day |
| Stock market | Pakistan Stock Exchange | Each trading day after the close; updates itself |
| Load-shedding | Press reports, each one named | No official feed is published; the desk adds each shortfall figure as it is reported, marked on the record or unofficial |
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