NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 1 – Kenya’s monthly inflation in July grew to 4.1 percent, up from 3.8 percent in June, impacted by high transportation, housing, and fuel, among other costs.
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) data shows that housing, fuel, water, electricity, gas, and other fuel charges expanded by 0.7 percent in the review period.
High fuel prices also saw the cost of transportation increase by 0.8 percent.
“Between June and July 2025, consumer prices for selected goods showed mixed trends. Kerosene/paraffin recorded the highest price increase, rising from KSh 147.92 to KSh 157.76 per litre, while petrol also went up from KSh 178.19 to KSh 187.37 per litre, indicating a notable rise in fuel costs,” KNBS data shows.
However, last month saw prices of food and non-alcoholic drinks drop by -0.3 percent.
“The Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages monthly inflation stood at negative 0.3 per cent mainly due to decrease in prices of oranges (2.6%), irish potatoes (2.0%), cabbages (1.3%), carrots (0.7%), cooking oil (salad) (0.6%) and beans (0.5%). Conversly, prices of maize grain-loose (1.6%), sugar (1.4%), kale-sukuma wiki (1.3%), tomatoes (1.2%) and maize graint(1.2%) dropped in July 2025.”
