Pakistan Inflation Rate

How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.

10.3%

−0.9pp vs Aug 2026

Sep 2026 · Monthly data

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Inflation Rate

Jul 2009 to Sep 2026

Source: IMF consumer price index (CPI, PAK.CPI._T.YOY_PCH_PA_PT.M), from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · national CPI, all items, change on the same month a year earlier as the IMF publishes it, to one decimal place, monthly.

Pakistan Inflation Rate in context

Worked out from the published series shown above.

In Pakistan, the inflation rate rose by 4.5pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 5.8% in Sep 2025.

Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.3% in Apr 2025 to 38.0% in May 2023.

Its average since Jul 2009 is 10.1%, and the latest reading is above that.

Pakistan is 5th of 62 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.

How this series is defined

Everything you need to check the figure against the source.

Source
IMF
Series
consumer
Frequency
Monthly
Unit
%
Seasonal adjustment
Not stated in the source citation
Latest observation
Sep 2026
Revision status
Latest published estimate, subject to revision

This is the national index, a weighted average of the urban and rural indexes, on a 2015-16 base.

Data refreshed 2026-10-16. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.

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