Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-February 2019

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics hereby releases monthly Consumer Price Indices (CPI)
and rates of inflation, for February, 2019. These numbers were generated from a survey of
retail prices that targeted a basket of household consumption goods and services. The
exercise was conducted during the second and third weeks of the month, with prices being
obtained from selected retail outlets in 25 data collection zones in Nairobi and in 13 other
urban centers.
The CPI increased by 0.82 per cent from 194.18 in January
2019 to 195.78 in February 2019. The overall year on year inflation in February 2019
stood at 4.14 per cent.