NAIROBI: Kenya’s year-on-year inflation fell to 5.72 percent in October from 7.06 percent a month earlier, driven by a fall in prices of some food items, the statistics office said on Tuesday.
Month on month, inflation was -0.63 percent, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement. Inflation for the food and non-Alcoholic beverages was -1.78 percent during the month. The category has a 36.04 percent weight in the goods used to calculate inflation.