Lebanon's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) was 14.6% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 18.35 percentage points from -3.75% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 14.6% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 84.86% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | -3.75% | 2015 |
| Highest | 221.34% | 2023 |
| Lowest | -3.75% | 2015 |
| Average since 2016 | 70.46% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 1.2% | 2009 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Lebanon's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) fell 30.65 percentage points on 2024 (from 45.24% to 14.6%).
Across the 15 yearly changes before that (2010 to 2024), the average change was +2.94 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 56.92 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 81.86 percentage points in 2020 and the biggest yearly fall was 176.1 percentage points in 2024. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 21% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Lebanon had the 10th highest value of the 169 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Lebanon | 14.6% | 2025 |
| World | 3.04% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 3.56% | 2025 |
Closest to Lebanon in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Inflation as measured by the consumer price index reflects the annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services that may be fixed or changed at specified intervals, such as yearly.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a median.
All 17 values
| Year | Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.6 |
| 2024 | 45.24 |
| 2023 | 221.34 |
| 2022 | 171.21 |
| 2021 | 154.76 |
| 2020 | 84.86 |
| 2019 | 3.01 |
| 2018 | 6.08 |
| 2017 | 4.32 |
| 2016 | -0.7834 |
| 2015 |
Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — -6.6% (2024)
- Algeria — 1.42% (2025)
- Bahrain — -0.14% (2025)
- Djibouti — -0.31% (2025)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 14.07% (2025)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 42.17% (2025)
- Iraq — 0.3% (2025)
- Israel — 3.04% (2025)
- Jordan — 1.77% (2025)
- Kuwait — 2.36% (2025)
More financial sector data for Lebanon
- Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) — US$89,500 (2025)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — 51.57 trillion (2017)
- Claims on central government (annual growth as % of broad money) — -21.28% (2018)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 160.19 trillion (2017)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 208.34 trillion (2017)
- Claims on private sector (annual growth as % of broad money) — 2.5% (2017)
- Broad money (annual % growth) — 4.21% (2017)
- DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$89,500 (2025)
- Deposit interest rate (%) — 9.7% (2019)
- Lending interest rate (%)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Lebanon's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth)?
- 14.6% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2009?
- It is up 13.4 percentage points from 1.2% in 2009. The highest value was 221.34% in 2023 and the lowest -3.75% in 2015.
- How does Lebanon rank?
- 10th highest of 169 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) unusual for Lebanon?
- In 2025, Lebanon's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) fell 30.65 percentage points on 2024 (from 45.24% to 14.6%). Across the 15 yearly changes before that (2010 to 2024), the average change was +2.94 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 56.92 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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