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Consumer Price Index.

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VERSION v2026-09-02

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COVERAGE 1962-03 - 2026-07

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FREQUENCY monthly

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Kenya's consumer price index from March 1962, 599 observations spliced from the three places the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics publishes it, none of which is complete on its own. The historical workbook is the spine of the series and runs from 1962 but stops in November 2022. Table 3.22 of the Economic Survey carries the most recent five years and is reissued annually. The monthly releases are current but publish the index only as labels on a figure, never in a table.

Every join is verified rather than assumed. The two workbooks share 35 months and agree on every one to every stored digit, both giving November 2022 as 128.3093098130572. The release figures are anchored the same way: they overlap months the workbooks already publish, and are only used beyond them. Extraction raises rather than choosing a winner if any of those checks fails.

Because the sources differ in precision, every row records which produced it. The 580 rows marked spreadsheet carry fifteen significant digits; the 19 marked monthly_release_figure carry the two decimals a figure label shows. A consumer who wants only the tabulated numbers can filter on that column.

Two further things are worth knowing. The series is not monthly throughout: from 1962 to 1983 only March, June, September and December were recorded, and it becomes properly monthly in 1984. And the whole of it, back to 1962, is expressed on a February 2019 base, so the 1962 index of 0.475 is directly comparable with the 155.20 of July 2026.

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CONSUMER PRICES

Kenyan consumer prices rose more than 320-fold in the six decades to 2026, and the steepest single year was 1993, when the index gained 46 percent.

Consumer price index · base February 2019 = 100 · quarterly to 1983, monthly to July 2026

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Consumer Price Index (monthly) · Updated 2026-09-02

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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
date	date	First day of reference month	-
category	string	Index series. One value, all_items, kept so the shape matches the other CPI datasets and a later release adding sub-indices extends this frame rather than changing it.	-
source_document	string	Which KNBS publication produced the row: spreadsheet (the historical workbook or the Economic Survey, fifteen significant digits) or monthly_release_figure (read from a release figure's data labels, two decimals).	-
value	float64	Consumer price index, base February 2019 = 100	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). Consumer Price Index [Data set]. imibare. v2026-09-02. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.cpi.monthly