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KNBS noted that the rise in inflation was due to an increase in the prices of food, transport, housing, water, electricity, and gas.

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has announced that inflation in the country rose to 4.1 per cent in April 2025, up from 3.6 per cent in March 2025.

In a report on Wednesday, April 30, KNBS said the rise in inflation was due to an increase in the prices of food, transport, housing, water, electricity and gas

“Overall year-on-year (annual) inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 4.1 per cent, in April 2025; an increase from an inflation rate of 3.6 per cent recorded in March 2025. The month-to-month inflation rate was 0.3 per cent in April 2025,” the report read in part.

The bureau noted that the food and non-alcoholic beverages index increased by 7.1 per cent in the last 12 months, while the transport index increased by 2.3 per cent. 

Housing, water, electricity, gas and other Fuels Index, on the other hand, increased by 0.8 per cent in the last 12 months.

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File image of Kenyans at a supermarket.

KNBS highlighted that between April 2024 and April 2025 the price of a kilo sukuma wiki went up by 32.8%, tomatoes (25.5%), cabbages (18.1%), traditional vegetables (17.9%), potatoes (17.6%), beef with bones ( 7.8%), 2Kgs of fortified maize flour (6.5%), cooking oil (5.9%) and maize grain (5.8%).

The bureau also note that in the last 12 months matatu bus fare for instance between Malindi and Nairobi has risen by 29.4%, monthly rent for a two-bedroom apartment up by 1.0% and the cost of electricity has rose by 0.3%.

At the same time, KNBS noted that the price of 13 kg of cooking gas/LPG fell by 2.7%, the price of a litre of diesel by 8.5%, a litre of petrol by 9.9% and a litre of kerosene by 12.5%.