Producer Price Indices First Quarter 2026

Abstract

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) hereby releases the Producer Price Indices (PPI) for the first quarter of 2026. The PPI measures the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers for their output. The year-on-year producer inflation rate for March 2026 stood at -1.81 per cent, while the Producer Price Index (PPI) was recorded at 134.15 during the same period. Figure 1 and Table 1 below illustrate the trends in producer price indices and corresponding year on year inflation rates from December 2022 to March2026. The highest inflation rate was 16.26 per cent recorded in December 2022.