The overall year on year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 5.80 per cent, in November 2021. This was mainly due to an increase in prices of commodities under: food and non-alcoholic beverages (9.92%); transport (8.14%); and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (6.24%) between November 2020 and November
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I am pleased to join the statistics fraternity in this year’s celebration of the African Statistics Day. I am particularly delighted to note that this year’s theme, “Modernizing National Statistical Systems to Support Socio-cultural Development in Africa” augurs with the Government’s long term development blue
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The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics joins other National Statistical Offices across Africa in marking this important day. The African Statistics Day is celebrated to increase public awareness about the role played by statistics towards socio-economic and demographic development in Africa. The theme for this year is “Modernizing Nat
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This report presents the economic performance for the first and second quarters of 2021. Economic growth decelerated in the first quarter of 2021 to 0.7 per cent compared to 4.4 per cent in the corresponding quarter of 2020, mainly owing to the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in the country in March 2020. On the other hand, real GDP grew by 10.1 per
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The overall year on year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 6.45 per cent, in October 2021. This was mainly driven by increase in prices of commodities under: food and non-alcoholic beverages (10.60 per cent); transport (8.15 per cent); and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (5.80 per cent) between Oct
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