Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-October 2019

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics hereby releases monthly Consumer Price
Indices (CPI) and rates of inflation, for October, 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 0.28 per cent from 201.57
in September 2019 to 202.12 in October 2019. The overall year on year
inflation in October 2019 stood at 4.95 per cent.