KSH: in February, prices increased by 25.4 percent compared to the same month of the previous year
In February of this year, consumer prices were on average 25.4 percent higher than a year earlier. In the past year, household energy and food prices have risen the most, the Central Statistics Office (KSH) reported on Wednesday.
Consumer prices increased by an average of 0.8 percent in one month. Compared to February 2022, food prices rose by 43.3 percent, including eggs (79.2 percent), dairy products (76.2 percent), butter and butter cream (75.1 percent), cheese (72 .1 percent), bread (71.1 percent), confectionery (68.6 percent), dry pasta (57.3 percent), milk (53.7 percent) and pastries (51.9 percent) they became more expensive. Within the product group, the price of flour (9.8 percent) and cooking oil (3.4 percent) increased the least.
Household energy rose in price by 49.0 percent. Within this, the price of piped gas increased by 78.4 percent, that of firewood by 59.5 percent, that of bottled gas by 52.0 percent, and that of electricity by 27.6 percent.
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