Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-July 2019

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics hereby releases monthly Consumer Price
Indices (CPI) and rates of inflation, for July, 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 13 other urban
centers.
The CPI decreased by 0.36 per cent from 204.34
in June 2019 to 203.61 in July 2019. The overall year on year inflation in
July 2019 stood at 6.27 per cent.