Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-January 2020

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics hereby releases the monthly Consumer
Price Indices (CPI) and rates of inflation, for January, 2020. 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 0.31 per cent from 204.77
in December 2019 to 205.40 in January 2020. The overall year on year
inflation in January 2020 stood at 5.78 per cent.