Kenya inflation rate (CPI)
Headline consumer price inflation, year-on-year percent, latest published month, from the official statistics office.
| Current value | 6.41 percent (YoY) |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-01 |
| Official source | Central Bank of Kenya — Inflation Rates (re-publication of KNBS CPI data; KNBS site unreachable at confirmation) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-16 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Reference month June 2026. Primary publisher is KNBS: 'Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates – June 2026' (canonical: https://www.knbs.or.ke/reports/consumer-price-indices-and-inflation-rates-june-2026/, PDF under /wp-content/uploads/2026/06/), released end-June 2026; KNBS prints the headline as 6.4 per cent (one decimal) with month-on-month CPI +0.3%. knbs.or.ke was returning 504/timeouts on 2026-07-16 and a fresh Wayback snapshot attempt failed (HTTP 520 upstream), so the value here is the CBK KNBS-attributed 12-month figure (6.41%; annual average 4.88%) — re-verify against the KNBS PDF once the site is reachable. CPI base period: February 2019. KNBS releases at the end of each reference month; next release ~31 July 2026.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | 4.4 | Central Bank of Kenya — Inflation Rates (KNBS-attributed 12- |
| 2026-02-01 | 4.3 | KNBS — Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates, February |
| 2026-03-01 | 4.4 | KNBS — Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates, March 202 |
| 2026-04-01 | 5.59 | Central Bank of Kenya — Inflation Rates (KNBS-attributed; th |
| 2026-05-01 | 6.7 | KNBS — Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates, May 2026, |
Get it programmatically
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