Wholesale price inflation in Pakistan rose to 11.82% year-on-year in August 2026 from 9.43% in the previous month, marking the strongest growth in three months. Costs increased for agriculture, forestry, and fishery (9.49% vs 7.61% in July), other transportable goods (26.80% vs 20.44%), and food, beverages, tobacco, textiles, and leather products (8.10% vs 7.40%), driven largely by stronger inflation for food, beverages, and tobacco (10.51% vs 9.40%), while price growth for textiles and leather products remained steady at 19.21%. Moreover, prices rebounded for ores, minerals, electricity, gas, and water (1.87% vs -0.39%). Meanwhile, price growth slowed for metal products, machinery, and equipment (5.16% vs 6.19%). On a monthly basis, wholesale prices rose by 2.0% in August, following a flat reading in the preceding month. source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

Producer Prices in Pakistan increased 11.80 percent in August of 2026 over the same month in the previous year. Producer Prices Change in Pakistan averaged 10.36 percent from 2000 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 41.30 percent in August of 2022 and a record low of -3.70 percent in March of 2015. This page provides - Pakistan Producer Prices Change- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Pakistan Wholesale Prices Change - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on September of 2026.

Producer Prices in Pakistan increased 11.80 percent in August of 2026 over the same month in the previous year. Producer Prices Change in Pakistan is expected to be 9.10 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Pakistan Wholesale Prices Change is projected to trend around 5.00 percent in 2027 and 4.00 percent in 2028, according to our econometric models.



Calendar GMT Reference Actual Previous Consensus TEForecast
2026-08-03 07:00 AM
Wholesale Prices YoY
Jul 9.4% 10.7% 10.5%
2026-09-02 07:15 AM
Wholesale Prices YoY
Aug 11.8% 9.4% 9.5%
2026-10-01 10:00 AM
Wholesale Prices YoY
Sep 11.8% 9.1%


Related Last Previous Unit Reference
Consumer Price Index CPI 270.35 296.97 points Aug 2026
CPI Housing Utilities 246.24 266.63 points Aug 2026
CPI Transportation 317.93 369.45 points Aug 2026
Food Inflation 13.89 10.64 percent Aug 2026
Inflation Rate YoY 11.10 9.20 percent Aug 2026
Inflation Rate MoM 1.20 1.20 percent Aug 2026
Producer Prices 313.68 343.96 points Aug 2026
Wholesale Prices YoY 11.80 9.40 percent Aug 2026


Pakistan Wholesale Prices Change
Producer prices change refers to year over year change in price of goods and services sold by manufacturers and producers in the wholesale market during a given period.
Actual Previous Highest Lowest Dates Unit Frequency
11.80 9.40 41.30 -3.70 2000 - 2026 percent Monthly
2015/2016=100, NSA

News Stream
Pakistan Wholesale Inflation at 3-Month High
Wholesale price inflation in Pakistan rose to 11.82% year-on-year in August 2026 from 9.43% in the previous month, marking the strongest growth in three months. Costs increased for agriculture, forestry, and fishery (9.49% vs 7.61% in July), other transportable goods (26.80% vs 20.44%), and food, beverages, tobacco, textiles, and leather products (8.10% vs 7.40%), driven largely by stronger inflation for food, beverages, and tobacco (10.51% vs 9.40%), while price growth for textiles and leather products remained steady at 19.21%. Moreover, prices rebounded for ores, minerals, electricity, gas, and water (1.87% vs -0.39%). Meanwhile, price growth slowed for metal products, machinery, and equipment (5.16% vs 6.19%). On a monthly basis, wholesale prices rose by 2.0% in August, following a flat reading in the preceding month.
2026-09-02
Pakistan Wholesale Inflation at 4-Month Low
Wholesale price inflation in Pakistan eased to 9.43% year-on-year in July 2026 from 10.69% in the previous month, marking the lowest reading since March. Costs declined for ores, minerals, electricity, gas, and water (-0.39% vs 5.69% in June), while price growth moderated for other transportable goods (20.44% vs 27.96%). Meanwhile, inflation accelerated for agriculture, forestry, and fishery (7.61% vs 1.80%), food, beverages, tobacco, textiles, and leather products (7.40% vs 7.14%), driven mainly by food products, beverages, and tobacco (9.40% vs 9.0%). Price growth also picked up for metal products, machinery, and equipment (6.19% vs 5.67%). On a monthly basis, wholesale prices were unchanged in July after falling 1.21% in the previous month.
2026-08-03
Pakistan Wholesale Inflation Slows
Pakistan's wholesale price inflation eased to 10.7% year-on-year in June 2026 from 12.7% in May. The slowdown was largely driven by softer price growth for ores, minerals, electricity, gas and water (5.7% vs. 8.5%). Meanwhile, inflation accelerated for food, beverages, tobacco, textiles and leather products (7.1% vs. 6.9%), led by leather products (19.2% vs. 16.1%). Price growth also picked up for agriculture, forestry and fishery products (1.8% vs. 1.0%) and metal products, machinery and equipment (5.7% vs. 5.2%). On a monthly basis, wholesale prices fell 1.2% in June, following a 0.8% decline in May.
2026-07-01