Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-May 2018

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics hereby releases monthly Consumer Price
Indices (CPI) and rates of inflation, for May, 2018. These numbers were
generated by conducting a survey of retail prices for a basket of household
consumption goods and services, during the second and third weeks of the
month under review. The prices were obtained from selected retail outlets in
25 data collection zones in Nairobi and 13 other urban centers.
The CPI increased by 0.97 per cent from 193.18
in April 2018 to 195.05 in May 2018. The overall year on year inflation stood
at 3.95 per cent in May 2018.