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Cooking oil (1L)

Kibera · KES

Over the weeks shown, cooking oil (1l) costs about 8% more in KES. Measured in sats, it is 20% cheaper.

In short: it takes more shillings to buy, but fewer sats. Saving in Bitcoin would have stretched further here.

In KES
+8.4%
In sats
-19.8%
Official CPI (YoY)
+5.2%

Both lines start at 100, so you can see how each moves apart over time.

KES Sats Official CPI

Weekly medians

Week of KES Sats
2025-09-01 340 4,250
2025-10-01 343 4,147
2025-11-01 346 4,047
2025-12-01 349 3,949
2026-01-01 352 3,854
2026-02-01 356 3,760
2026-03-01 359 3,670
2026-04-01 362 3,581
2026-05-01 365 3,494
2026-06-01 369 3,410