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Unit Prices of Selected Imports.

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What Kenya pays per unit for what it buys, for the ten years to 2024. 339 observations across 34 commodities priced in shillings per kilo, hundredweight, tonne, litre or item.

Refined sugar rose from KSh 5,415 a hundredweight to KSh 9,462, a gain of 74.7 per cent, and sugar and syrups from KSh 5,067 to KSh 8,806. Fish and fish preparations rose 34.0 per cent. Milk foods for infants moved the other way and by far the most, from KSh 72,128 a hundredweight in 2015 to KSh 29,384 in 2024, having fallen to KSh 17,610 in 2020.

This is the one table in its group that can be checked against others. A unit price is a value over a quantity, and Kenya publishes both: `Tobacco, unmanufactured` in 2022 implies KSh 441,714 a tonne from Table 6.14's value over Table 6.15's quantity, against a printed KSh 441,700, which is the source's own precision. It holds to 0.21 per cent at worst across all eight years the three tables share.

One price is not credible and is published as printed. Hops read KSh 131,247.5 a kilo in 2024 against KSh 1,499.5 in 2023, an 88-fold jump in a series that moved between KSh 548 and KSh 1,602 over the nine years before it. Everything about it reads like a decimal or unit slip in the source, and it ships as KNBS printed it rather than repaired to a figure KNBS did not print.

Where the source prints two dots the figure is absent rather than zero, and those cells are omitted rather than published as nil.

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Kenya pays 75 per cent more for a hundredweight of refined sugar than it did in 2015, and 59 per cent less for infant milk foods.

Unit prices of selected imports · KSh per unit · 2015 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Unit Prices of Selected Imports (annual) · Updated 2026-08-26
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imibare contributors. (2026). Unit Prices of Selected Imports [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-26. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.import-unit-prices.annual