ISLAMABAD: The rate of inflation climbed to 28.3% in the previous month of July 2023, registering an increase of 3.4% as compared to June 2023. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the inflation rate in July 2023 soared to 28.3%. In the previous month, prices of vegetables registered an increase of 37.6%, tomatoes 33.4%, green spices 18.8%, flour 13.3%, sugar 11.1%, potatoes 8.1%,gurr 6.79%, dry milk 5.2%, and Dal Mash 3.2%. According to the PBS, during July, the electricity charges were risen by 39.88%, transport fare increased by 4% and hospital services became expensive by 6% when compared to June 2023. On Year-on-Year inflation trend, when compared to July 2022, the cigarettes became more expensive by 123.46% in July 2023, flour by 102.43%, tea by 97.26%, rice by 68.8%, wheat by 66.5%, potato by 60.6%, chicken by 58.1%, sugar by 56.4%, wheat products by 55.9%, gurr by 44.5%, Dal Moong by 43.8%, Dal Maash by 41%, milk by 30%, vegetables by 25%, stationery by 63.5%, gas by 62.8%, vehicles by 35.6%, and construction materials by 35%. In one year, electricity charges rose by 8.3% and house rents increased by 7.4%. DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD: The rate of inflation climbed to 28.3% in the previous month of July 2023, registering an increase of 3.4% as compared to June 2023. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the inflation rate in July 2023 soared to 28.3%. In the previous month, prices of vegetables registered an increase of 37.6%, tomatoes 33.4%, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"\n