Islamabad:
Pakistan’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 24.5 percent in December 2022 as compared to the same month a year ago when it was recorded at 12.28 percent, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said.
The CPI in December also witnessed a year-on-year rise from November as it went through an increase of 23.8 percent in the previous month.
On a month-on-month basis, the CPI edged up 0.5 percent in December as compared to a growth of 0.8 percent in the previous month, the PBS figures showed.
The inflation rate had been in line with the Ministry of Finance’s monthly outlook for the month of December, ranging from 23 to 25 percent. IANS